Former New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns is expected to be charged with perjury overnight.
Cairns is in London and was expected to report to a police station where the charge will formally be laid and a date for his first appearance in court is likely to be set.
His voluntary return to the UK to face criminal charge means bail is likely, although conditions could be imposed. It is unlikely a trial will take place before May next year.
The perjury charge stems from a High Court libel trial in London in which Cairns won damages of $174,000 and costs of $775,000 against former Indian Premier League boss Lalit Modi.
Modi had claimed that Cairns had been expelled from the now-defunct Indian Cricket League was because of match-fixing.