Did BCCI ignore Lalit Modi's mail to ICC?

MUMBAI: The BCCI may not have discussed Lalit Modi's scandalous email to ICC chief executive David Richardson for the next three months after it was first sent on June 23, 2013.
Last Friday, Modi, in a sensational exposure, had claimed on Twitter that he had written a mail to the International Cricket Council (ICC) in June 2013 about CSK stars Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo informing the world body about the players being gifted flats and cash in a suspicious manner.The ICC reacted by confirming that it indeed received the mail, and "in accordance with its standard operational procedures, its Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU), shared it with the BCCI's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU)."
However, a top BCCI functionary who served the board during that period categorically told TOI that the email, which Modi sent to the ICC and the ICC claims to have shared with the BCCI, was not discussed.
Former BCCI Anti-Corruption Unit chief Ravi Sawani had confirmed last week that they had received the information from ICC but had not acted upon it since the players involved were of international cadre. Following Sawani's comment BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur gave the players a clean chit saying there had been no wrong doing on their part.
However, the official TOI spoke to on Thursday said the email wasn't discussed in the board's working committee meetings at least till September 2013. "This topic was never discussed, at least in all the meetings that I attended in that period (till BCCI AGM in September)," said a BCCI official, who held a key post in the Board in that period.
The matter certainly wasn't discussed during the Working Committee meeting of the BCCI on July 28, 2013, in Kolkata (a copy of the minutes of this meeting is with TOI). This meeting took place nearly a month after Modi's mail to the ICC CEO David Richardson.
It is interesting to note that while a BCCI official did suggest a meeting of the disciplinary committee in the next 15 days to decide the fate of Rajasthan Royals' players S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, who were accused of spot-fixing, not a word was discussed on Modi's allegation against two India players and one West Indian player.
On Monday, BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur had said that the BCCI had given a clean chit to three cricketers, saying "there is nothing in it" as the ICC did not provide any further information on the issue.
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