They have both muscle and money power. The CBI officials say that former Indian captain Mohammed Azharuddin is understood to have links with the mafia operating these days from Karachi. A study of phone calls received from certain numbers which are being monitored gives rise to the suspicion that Azhar knew a few people there. We are trying to ascertain just how well he knew them. Under scrutiny is the fact that he received luxury foreign cars during tournaments held in the middle east.
Nobody gives away expensive cars as gifts.
We do not believe that people who gave them were mere admirers. Two men in the flat were taking phone calls every minute, noting down figures in ledgers and watching the match on television. People kept dropping in. Tea was being served, the atmosphere was genial. The phones kept ringing and odds kept fluctuating dramatically.