UAE’s Qadeer Ahmed handed five-year ban for corruption



News

The sentence will be backdated to October 16, 2019, when he used to be provisionally suspended by the ICC

Qadeer Ahmed, the UAE medium pacer, has been banned for five years by the ICC for committing six breaches of the governing body’s anti-corruption code. Ahmed’s ban will be backdated to October 16, 2019, when he used to be provisionally suspended by the ICC along side his colleagues Mohammad Naveed and Shaiman Anwar, either one of whom have since been handed eight-year bans.

The ICC anti-corruption unit found 35-year-old Ahmed, who played 11 ODIs and ten T20Is between 2015 and 2019, guilty on counts that included failing to reveal approaches throughout two bilateral series the UAE played absent in 2019. The first used to be in Zimbabwe in April, where Ahmed used to be offered AED 60,000-70,000 (US$ 16,000 to 19,000 approx) by the corruptors. Then, in August in Netherlands, Ahmed used to be again found to keep in touch with corruptors, and the ACU due to this fact suspended him just at the start of the 2019 World Cup qualifiers, held in Zimbabwe in October-November.

The ICC said in a media commentary on Tuesday that Ahmed had failed to reveal details of the approaches from corruptors, or that he given within information in August 2019 to a person, who had played with club cricket with him in the UAE.

That person is understood to be Mehardeep Chhayakar, named “Mr Z” in the ACU findings, which have been published by the ICC on Tuesday. Chhayakar knew Ahmed while playing domestic cricket in Ajman in the UAE.

On Tuesday, the ICC also charged Chhayakar for breaching half a dozen counts of the anti-corruption code. He used to be charged for “making an attempt to contrive to fix aspects” of games in the Zimbabwe vs UAE series in April 2019 in addition to at the Global T20 Canada league in 2019. Chhayakar used to be also charged with trying to “induce and/or solicit” a participant involved in both the Zimbabwe-UAE series in addition to at the GT20 Canada. Chhayakar, who the ICC said has refused to cooperate with the investigation, has 14 days from April 15 (the day he used to be charged) to reply.

More to follow…


Bookmark the permalink.

Comments are closed.