- By Aditya Jha
- Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:39 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Lalit Modi, former IPL commissioner, has alleged that continuous threats from underworld figure Dawood Ibrahim and his associates forced him to exit the active cricket business. In an interview with news agency ANI, Modi alleged that he was attacked thrice and his son was kidnapped in London for refusing to fix the IPL matches. The former IPL commissioner also claimed that he was offered millions of rupees to fix the matches during the initial years of the tournament.
While recalling the incidents, Modi stated that there was a shootout outside his house in Mumbai despite him being given Z-security by the police. Modi alleged that he was targeted thrice on foreign soil, adding that his son was also kidnapped in London, making the condition worse.
"Bombay police put me on Z-security. I didn't ask for it. All of a sudden, I had Z-security. There was a shootout outside my house in Bombay. There was a hit for me in Johannesburg. And I'm in Cape Town, which was picked up by the South African government," Modi was quoted as saying by ANI.
"There was a hit on me in Montenegro, which was picked up at the Croatian border. My son was kidnapped in London on Sloane Street, right there… by a guy called Baba Avin. He lived on Park Street," he claimed. Modi also claimed that there was no fixing in the IPL in the initial years, adding that he monitored the suspects and banned them from entering into the stadium.
"If you look at the first three years when I ran the IPL, there was no fixing. I took a lot of people to task. And I threw a lot of people out of the stadium. I banned a lot of people from coming. It wasn't liked by the mafia. They offered me hundreds of millions of dollars to look the other way," Modi added.
Lalit Modi was one of the leading faces in launching the Indian Premier League (IPL), the most famous and business-friendly cricket league in the world.