Ex-West Indies star Marlon Samuels found guilty of corruption offences by ICC

Marlon Samuels, the two-time T20 World Cup winner for West Indies, has been found guilty of four corruption offences.

The 42-year-old Jamaican was ruled to have breached the Emirates Cricket Board’s Anti-Corruption Code, in relation to the 2019 Abu Dhabi T10.

An independent tribunal found Samuels guilty of failing to disclose an all-expenses paid trip to Dubai that year which it decided “was made or given in circumstances that could bring [Samuels] or the sport of cricket into disrepute”.

He was also found to have failed to co-operate with the anti-corruption investigation and obstructed it “by concealing information that may have been relevant to the investigation”.

Samuels was signed by Karnataka Tuskers for the 2019 Abu Dhabi T10 but did not play a match after deciding not to travel just before the start of the tournament.

The ownership of the team changed midway through that competition as the original owner was under investigation for potential corruption.

According to the ICC’s report into the case, their anti-corruption unit had been alerted to the fact Samuels had travelled to Dubai via photos on his Instagram account.

During the course of the trip, he associated with Mehar Chhayakar, a former UAE domestic cricketer who was last year banned from cricket for 14 years for a variety of corruption offences.

Chhayakar’s charges included attempting to induce Qadeer Ahmed and Ghulam Shabber, both former UAE players, to fix aspects of matches in 2019.

The report into the Samuels case suggests Chhayakar had interests in two teams in the T10.

It states he would offer players the chance to play for those sides, in exchange for 10 per cent of their fee, with the opportunity to make “extra money” – said to be a euphemism for