Suspended Majola found guilty over IPL bonuses

Suspended Cricket South Africa CEO Gerald Majola has been found guilty of unauthorised expenditure at a disciplinary hearing to investigate the IPL II bonuses he paid himself and other CSA staff. The ruling was handed down in absentia as Majola is challenging, in a separate action, the legality of Nicholson inquiry that recommended the disciplinary inquiry and investigation of possible criminal charges against him. Sports minister Fikile Mbalula instituted the inquiry following almost two years of wrangling inside CSA over IPL II bonuses that Majola misused. ‘We will invite Mr Majola to make representation on mitigating circumstances on why a harsh sanction is not appropriate,’ CSA’s lawyer Nicholas Preston said on Thursday.