BCCI CAO Ratnakar Shetty on Monday said suspended IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi did not provide the Board with original papers of some of the contracts, including those of three losing bids in the inaugural IPL and media rights deal with Multi Screen Media.
Asked what are the documents he would be looking for, Shetty said, "The tax authorities and Enforcement Directorate are inquiring for a lot of papers connected with IPL and in some cases we don't have original documents. We have only xerox copies which they feel is not proper."
"According to (IPL CEO) Sundar Raman the original documents are with Lalit Modi. My job is to put up a list of documents that were supposed to be with IPL and original documents obtained in each case," said Shetty who has been entrusted by the Board chief Shashank Manohar to look into the missing documents.
Shetty said no original copies of the three losing bidders of the inaugural IPL were available nor did they have documents of media rights deal between MSM and the Board.
"In January 2008 there were 11 bidders (to own the franchises) and only the original documents of the eight winning bidders are with BCCI. We don't have the original documents of the three losing bidders, we have only xerox copies. Obviously those documents should be Modi. I hope Lalit would give them which are the property of BCCI," he said.
"There were some documents which were important like the media rights documents between MSM and BCCI which was renegotiated in 2009. Original copies of such documents were not available.
'Media rights document was not discussed in IPL Governing Council, it was reported in the BCCI Working Committee that there has been a fresh document entered into between BCCI and Sony Max and amount for which was negotiated. Nothing beyond that," he told.
Shetty also said BCCI didn't interfere in IPL's working as Modi was also the board Vice President.
"IPL started as a separate wing of BCCI. Separate office was set up and several people employed. Lalit being BCCI vice-president it was a question of authority he had in BCCI that he was running the show. And the administrative wing of BCCI therefore did not interfere in IPL's working." PTI
