{"id":10323,"date":"2012-04-27T04:33:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T02:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/cricket-majola-to-face-civil-and-criminal-investigations\/"},"modified":"2012-04-27T04:33:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T02:33:06","slug":"cricket-majola-to-face-civil-and-criminal-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-majola-to-face-civil-and-criminal-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Majola to face civil and criminal investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 26<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Suspended Cricket South<br \/>\nAfrica (CSA) chief executive Gerald Majola faces a criminal<br \/>\nprobe and a civil claim for the repayment of illegal bonuses<br \/>\nallegedly paid to him by the Indian Premier League.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A civil process will be launched by CSA&#8230;.The Hawks (South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation) have also<br \/>\nbeen to CSA and are in the process of their investigation,&#8221;<br \/>\nsports minister Fikile Mbalula told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re on top of it, but we don&#8217;t know the outcome yet. We<br \/>\nhave to respect the process because it&#8217;s not up to us to arrest<br \/>\npeople. It was a smooth operation, not done Hollywood style,<br \/>\nbecause that way things get done properly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Judge Chris Nicholson announced last month that Majola had<br \/>\n&#8220;surreptitiously&#8221; received 1.8 million rand ($231,200) in<br \/>\nunauthorised bonuses from the IPL, as well as irregular travel<br \/>\nexpenses, in contravention of the Companies Act.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nicholson recommended that Majola be suspended, the bonus<br \/>\nmoney be recovered and that CSA undergo restructuring of their<br \/>\nboard and governance processes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Ken Borland)<br \/>\n($1 = 7.7858 South African rand)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, April 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Suspended Cricket South Africa (CSA) chief executive Gerald Majola faces a criminal probe and a civil claim for the repayment of illegal bonuses allegedly paid to him by the Indian Premier League. &#8220;A civil process will be launched by CSA&#8230;.The Hawks (South Africa&#8217;s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation) have also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}