ACU member assigned in every team to counter corruption in BBPL
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||CF Correspondent ||
In a bid to prevent corruption from the Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BBPL), a member of the Anti Corruption Unit (ACU) is assigned with the seven participating teams of the Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BBPL).
BCB president Nazmul Hassan Papon reiterated that in line with their vision to uproot all the corruption from the cricket, they have stuck with zero-tolerance policy in this tournament also.
The seriousness of BCB intensified with the incident of ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan who failed to report of the corrupt approaches from the bookies to ICC, resulting his ban from the cricket for two years with one year of that suspended by the world cricket apex body.
“We have attached a member of ACU in every team. We are strict and very serious on this issue,” Nazmul Hassan Papon said on Thursday.
“ACU’s presence is always there but now the activities are intensified [after the incident of Shakib]. I mean they [ACU] are willingly doing this. We are needed not to do, what we had to do was to bear the extra expenditure. Because if you assign a person for each and every team, he should be given salary and also you have to provide him the food and accommodation. But we instantly agree with this. Just we want to keep everything secure. What they are saying, we are doing that way.”
He said that ACU will work independently to uproot the corruption, if any, from the tournament.
“The member of the ACU generally comes from the Army. Every team will be given training on the corruption issue. Those who are the sponsors of the team will do the things accordingly. We will not interfere on it. We, in fact, don’t want to know what ACU is doing. I think they should be given the freedom to work independently.”
