Pakistan batsman Khalid latif has been handed a five-year ban and fined one million rupees by the anti-corruption tribunal after finding him guilty of six breaches of the Pakistan Cricket Board's anti-corruption code.
The detailed order of the tribunal released on Tuesday confirmed that the three-member bench found latif guilty off all six charges, brought against him by the PCB in the spot-fixing case during the Pakistan Super league in Dubai in February.
The tribunal, headed by a former judge of the lahore High Court, has already banned Test opener Sharjeel Khan for five years with half of the sentence suspended on spot-fixing charges. PCB's legal advisor Tafazzul Rizvi said the detailed order on latif showed that the tribunal found him guilty of meeting with a bookmaker, Yousuf on 8th and 9th of February and agreeing to spot-fixing in a match. "It is irrelevant whether Khalid played a match or not. The full order finds him guilty of breaching the code of conduct."
latif has also been found guilty of trying to instigate teammates to spot-fix and convincing Sharjeel to meet with the bookmaker in Dubai.
latif and his lawyer now have 14 days to file an appeal against the ban and fine.
Rizvi also said that the cases being heard against Pakistani batsmen Nasir Jamshed and Shahzaib Hasan would also be decided soon by the tribunal.