The disciplinary panel on Monday started the final hearing of the appeals against the BCB anti-corruption tribunal’s verdict in the Bangladesh Premier League’s match-fixing trial.
The disciplinary panel had earlier completed their preliminary hearing on August 6.
Former national team captain Mohammad Ashraful and two other convicted persons along with the International Cricket Council and the BCB appealed against the vedicts delived by the tribunal.
The tribunal, headed by retired justice Khademul Islam Chowdhury, banned Ashraful, who pleaded guilty, for eight years and fined him Tk 10 lakh.
It also banned Dhaka Gladiators managing director Shihab Chowdhury for 10 years along with a fine of Tk 20 lakh.
New Zealand cricketer Lou Vincent and Sri Lankan Kaushal Lokuarachchi, who were charged with failure to report for the corrupt approach, have also been suspended for three and one-and-a-half years respectively.
Before that the application of BCB/ACSU for an order directing Mr Gaurav Rawat to comply with the demands dated June 4 2013 and August 212013 was taken up for hearing. After hearing the parties, the application was dismissed and the reasons for the rejection would be provided later on,’ BCB’s disciplinary panel registrar Khandakar A Hye said in a press release.
The Tribunal earlier acquitted six individuals charged by the ICC’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit.
Barring Vincent and the acquitted individuals, all parties involved in the trial lodged an appeal before the retired Supreme Court justice, Mohammad Abdur Rashid, the head of the BCB’s disciplinary panel.
-With New Age input
