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Cash used in the cricket betting scandal is understood to have been found in the belongings of the Pakistani team captain, a UK newspaper reported. Scotland Yard officers are to question Salman Butt today over how marked notes were discovered in police searches of his hotel room and his locker at Lords cricket ground, the Daily Mail reported.The revelation came on the day Pakistans most senior diplomat in Britain said the three cricketers engulfed in the betting scandal were set up. Butt, the 25-year-old captain, and fast bowlers Mohammad Asif, 27, and Mohammad Aamer, 18, also insisted they were innocent.However, the three men have now been charged under the ICC's anti-corruption code and suspended from all matches by the International body. ICC officials went over the heads of the Pakistan Cricket Board, which had merely withdrawn the players from the tour of England.
