The Bangladesh government's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) raided the BCB's headquarters on Tuesday, April 15, to collect documents and records following massive accusations against the cricket board. The panel of a three-member team held a press briefing following their raid alongside BCB chief executive Nizam Uddin Chowdhury.
The accusations include some faulty financial miscalculations of ticket sales during the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) tournament and a major scam related to cricket activities, which included a big political program celebrating "Mujib 100" (in honor of the 100th birth anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman) in 2020. However, the event could not take place due to COVID & lockdown rules in place at that time.
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The ACC three-member panel also found some faults in the rule implementation in Dhaka's third division qualification tournament. It is to be noted that all three cases by the ACC team came to the limelight when Nazmul Hassan was in charge of BCB president.
"We will file a report in the enforcement unit after verifying all these documents," ACC's assistant director Al Amin said. "The ACC will then decide what the next step will be. Every one of the ACC's raids is due to a specific complaint. We collect complaints from the media. We have a committee that verifies these complaints. Once it is approved, we go on a raid. It is the same in this case."
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The three-member ACC panel said that they are looking into the financial matters in the BPL's ticket sales since the tournament turned three years old. Ticket sales have shown a remarkable and steady growth of around BDT 15 Crore (1.2 million USD approx.) over eight seasons, but in the 11th season, it saw a dip of BDT 2 Crore as the figure stood at BDT 13 Crore (1.07 million USD approx.).
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"One of BCB's revenue streams is ticket sales. There was 15 crore in eight years and then 13 crore in a single year. We are trying to collect documents to find out what the anomaly is," Al Amin said.
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