{"id":46297,"date":"2022-07-11T22:22:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T13:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/11\/cricket-fake-ipl-tournament-farm-russian-gamblers-india-police-betting-scam-the-sting"},"modified":"2022-07-11T22:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T13:22:30","slug":"gang-caught-running-fake-indian-cricket-league-to-dupe-russian-gamblers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46297","title":{"rendered":"Gang caught running fake Indian cricket league to dupe Russian gamblers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian police say gang went to great lengths in betting scam reminiscent of the 1973 film The Sting<\/p>\n<p>A gang set up a fake \u201cIndian Premier League\u201d tournament with farm labourers acting as players to dupe Russian punters in a betting scam reminiscent of the 1973 film The Sting.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201cIndian Premier Cricket League\u201d reached the quarter-final stage before the racket was busted by police in India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/11\/cricket-fake-ipl-tournament-farm-russian-gamblers-india-police-betting-scam-the-sting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian police say gang went to great lengths in betting scam reminiscent of the 1973 film The StingA gang set up a fake \u201cIndian Premier League\u201d tournament with farm labourers acting as players to dupe Russian punters in a betting scam reminiscent of th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46298,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297\/revisions\/46298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}