London: Appeal hearings against sentences in connectin with the spot-fixing scandal of former cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Amir will begins from Wednesday.
According to reports in the media here, “the court of appeal will hear their case on November 23 with the lord chief justice presiding.”
Butt and Amir were imprisoned for 30 months and six month respectively whereas fast bowler Mohammad Asif and cricket agent Mazhar Majeed were also jailed in the scam.
Mazeed claimed to have paid Asif 65,000 pounds, Butt, 10,000 pounds and Amir 2,500 pounds as bribes, the BBC reports.
The judge, however, told all three players that they would be released on licence after serving their half sentences, if they behaved well in prison.
Earlier, in February, Pakistan trio were banned from playing for five years by the ICC. They are also appealing against the suspensions.
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