The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started an investigation against former president Nazmul Hasan Papon on charges of laundering money abroad through Hundi and amassing huge wealth through various irregularities and corruption at the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB).
It is learned that this time the institution has also started investigating Papon’s corruption in the cricket board. Earlier, ACC Deputy Director Md. Saiduzzaman applied for an order to freeze the bank accounts of Papon and his family. A total of Tk 33.74 crore is deposited in these bank accounts.
Papon had been serving as the president of the BCB since 2012. Many claim that he had sole authority over the institution for more than a decade. After the parliamentary elections in January last year, he also got the ministry of youth and sports. However, he left the post of BCB president on August 21 after the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government in a mass uprising by students and the public.
On March 16, the court had ordered the freezing of 27 bank accounts of the former MP from Kishoreganj-6 constituency and former BCB president, his wife Roksana Hasan and other family members on corruption charges. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Zakir Hossain Ghalib gave the order following an application by the ACC.
Former Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hasan Papon has been in hiding since the fall of the Awami League government on August 5. He later resigned as BCB president after participating in a virtual meeting of the board directors.
