<p>Hasan had insisted that Salman Butt, Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif were innocent.<br />The British tabloid said it had solid evidence which can help investigators nail the players.<br />“We have cast-iron proof with timed evidence from e-mails, text messages, phone records, videos and receipts,” the newspaper asserted.<br /><br />“We have dated receipts showing our reporters picked up £140,000 from a London travel agent and took a hired car to the London hotel where our undercover Investigations Editor Mazher Mahmood met match-fixer Mazhar Majeed to hand over the cash.<br /><br />“Police possess CCTV footage from the hotel showing Mahmood and Majeed arriving separately for the meeting on August 25. We videoed the handover and later Mahmood e-mailed our editor Colin Myler, company lawyer Tom Crone and the news editor to brief them on what had happened.<br /><br />“His e-mail is timed at 01:24 on August 26 -- nine and a half hours before the Lord’s Test was due to begin.”</p>
<p>Hasan had insisted that Salman Butt, Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif were innocent.<br />The British tabloid said it had solid evidence which can help investigators nail the players.<br />“We have cast-iron proof with timed evidence from e-mails, text messages, phone records, videos and receipts,” the newspaper asserted.<br /><br />“We have dated receipts showing our reporters picked up £140,000 from a London travel agent and took a hired car to the London hotel where our undercover Investigations Editor Mazher Mahmood met match-fixer Mazhar Majeed to hand over the cash.<br /><br />“Police possess CCTV footage from the hotel showing Mahmood and Majeed arriving separately for the meeting on August 25. We videoed the handover and later Mahmood e-mailed our editor Colin Myler, company lawyer Tom Crone and the news editor to brief them on what had happened.<br /><br />“His e-mail is timed at 01:24 on August 26 -- nine and a half hours before the Lord’s Test was due to begin.”</p>