The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will re-tender the international media rights for the Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition after cancelling the existing contract with the World Sport Group agency (WSG).
The BCCI scrapped the WSG deal, which ran until 2017, on Tuesday, on the grounds of “all-pervasive fraud” allegedly perpetrated by the agency when agreeing a new deal with Indian broadcaster Multi Screen Media (MSM) for the domestic rights last year, in the course of which it received an $80 million (€67 million) facilitation fee. The BCCI claims that it has only recently been made aware of the facilitation fee payment, a claim disputed by WSG and suspended IPL commissioner Lalit Modi. WSG denies any wrongdoing.
MSM has since agreed to pay the $80 million direct to the BCCI and is taking legal steps to recover the $25 million it has already paid to WSG.
