Hot on fake notes trail, IB stumbled on spot-fixers

Phone tapping: The IB sleuths began monitoring the phone calls of several top bookies based in Delhi and found that they were receiving huge amounts of fake currency notes from across the borderu00a0

Spot-fixing: While screening the calls, the IB discovered that the bookies were having several conversations with cricketers and also spot-fixing matches in the IPL. They passed on the details to the Delhi police, and the latter began a probe in the spot-fixing scandal

Visual evidence: Armed with the contents of the recorded conversation, the Delhi police kept a watch on the IPL matches and found that a certain number of players were underperforming on the orders of the bookies

Graphic/Amit Bandre, Text: Akela