Cricketer Mohammad Ashraful faces a minimum five-year ban after he was found guilty of violating a certain anti-corruption clause during the Bangladesh Premier League, said the lawyers on Monday. The Anti-Corruption Tribunal, formed to try the accused of BPL match-fixing scandal, on Sunday provided the details of their verdict which acquitted six accused and found Dhaka Gladiators officials guilty.
Ashraful and two other cricketers – New Zealand’s Lou Vincent and Sri Lankan Kaushal Lokuarachchi – pleaded guilty and the detailed verdict cited the sections they violated.
Nauroz Chowdhury, the lawyer of Gladiators, said both Ashraful and his client Shihab Chowdhury, managing director of the franchise, were found guilty under article 2.1.1 of BCB’s anti-corruption code.
The article 2.1.1 is related to fixing or contriving in any way or otherwise influencing improperly, or being a
party to any effort to fix or contrive in any way or otherwise influence improperly, the result, progress, conduct or any other aspect of any match or event.
It stipulates a minimum punishment of five-year ban and a maximum life ban.
Vincent and Lokuarachchi violated article 2.4.1, which stipulates a minimum ban for one year and a maximum five-year ban.
The tribunal will determine the punishment after a hearing, which is expected to be held on June 18 or 19.
It was learnt that Ashraful’s British lawyer Yasin Patel had asked the Tribunal to defer the date for the sanction hearing.
-With New Age input
