The BCB’s integrity unit has charged four individuals, including a domestic cricketer, with breach of various provisions of the ICC anti-corruption code. They have also handed Saminur Rahman, who was associated with Chattogram Royals in the 2025-26 BPL, a lifetime ban for his involvement in betting-related activities, among other charges.
The BCB named cricketer Amit Majumder and team managers Lablur Rahman and Rezwan Kabir Siddique, as well as Noakhali Express co-owner Towhidul Haque in a press release issued on Thursday. They are charged for alleged betting-related activities, corrupt approaches, failures to comply with demand notices (issued under Article 4.3 of the ICC’s anti-corruption code), concealment and deletion of relevant communications, and failures to cooperate with the designated anti-corruption official. They will be serving a temporary ban starting Thursday.
“The charged participants have been provisionally suspended and have 14 days from receipt of the notices of charge to respond to the allegations,” the BCB’s statement said.
Alex Marshall, the integrity unit’s independent chair, called the charges an “important milestone” towards protecting cricket in Bangladesh.
“Today marks an important milestone in the work to protect cricket in Bangladesh,” Marshall said in a statement. “Four individuals have been charged with various breaches of the Anti-Corruption Code and provisionally suspended from today. The people charged have 14 days to respond. They can accept their charges and seek an agreed sanction or request a Tribunal hearing.
“One person has been declared an Excluded Person, which means they are barred from all cricketing activities globally. This exclusion was imposed following the discovery of irrefutable evidence of long-term corrupt activities in cricket, including match fixing and extensive contact and money transfers with foreign bookies. These are the first cases to conclude since the BCB integrity unit was formed in November 2025. The unit is currently investigating a number of other cases and further charges are likely in the coming weeks and months. The team continues to investigate matters arising from the Independent Inquiry Commission Report.”
ESPNcricinfo has learned that the integrity unit’s investigation spanned the BPL’s latest edition, held in the 2025-26 season, as well as the two NCL T20 tournaments held since 2024.
Majumder, an 18-year domestic veteran, was charged under Article 2.2.1, which is “placing, accepting, laying or otherwise entering into bets in relation to the result, progress, conduct or any other aspect of cricket matches”. Majumder never played in the BPL, but ESPNcricinfo understands that the investigators found him and Rezwan betting on BPL and IPL matches.
Rezwan was the Sylhet Titans manager in the 2025-26 BPL but it is learned that they removed him from the role soon after the BCB’s integrity unit contacted the franchise about him.
Noakhali co-owner Towhid and Lablur, who was reportedly the team manager of Royals, were both charged under Article 2.4.6, which is “failing or refusing, without compelling justification to cooperate with an investigation carried out by the DACO in relation to possible Corrupt Conduct under the Code, including failure to comply with a Demand Notice issued under Article 4.3 of the code”.
They were also charged with “obstructing or delaying a DACO investigation into possible Corrupt Conduct under the Code, including concealment, deletion or destruction of relevant communications and information, which is Article 2.4.7.”
Meanwhile, Saminur was slapped with a lifetime ban under the BCB’s excluded person policy. He was investigated for alleged corrupt activities connected to the BPL’s ninth, tenth and 11th editions.
“The investigation identified alleged betting-related activities, alleged corrupt approaches to players and agents, communications with individuals associated with domestic and international betting and corruption networks, and alleged involvement in facilitating corrupt conduct in relation to cricket matches,” the BCB statement said.
“Following service of a notice of intended exclusion Order, Mr. Rahman waived his right to submit a response under the excluded person policy and accepted the imposition of the exclusion order.”
The “exclusion person” order is a fairly new policy to remove individuals who are not directly involved with a tournament, team or player, but whose corrupt activities are considered “serious in nature”. The BCB is reportedly the second cricket board to use this clause.
The BCB’s integrity unit is headed by Marshall, who works with four or five investigators, while Barrister Mahin M Rahman is the unit’s general counsel.
