The Surfer: Tale of the sting
The News of the World sting has turned the cricketing world upside down and made match fixing topic du jour once again. In Open magazine, Aniruddha Bahal, goes inside the tabloid’s undercover operation and breaks it down, meeting by meeting. The setting was a classic undercover strategy, specially where an impression needed to be conveyed of opulence and power. In this case, the NOTW team pretended to be members of a betting syndicate (two males accompanied by a female secretary). It was also a classic ruse to flood the scene…
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The Surfer: Tale of the sting
