She has been banned for 5 years from all cricket after she admitted breaching 5 provisions of the anti-corruption code.
The fees towards her centre round an strategy she made to a Bangladesh cricketer in the course of the 2023 Girls’s T20 World held in South Africa. Akhter, 36, was not a part of the Bangladesh taking part in squad for that World Cup, having final performed in October 2022.
The participant who was approached by Akhter reported the matter to the ACU instantly, offering all of the voice notes from Shohely, who had deleted these recordsdata on her units.
When interviewed by the ACU, Shohely confirmed that she did ship the voice messages to the participant however initially claimed that “she solely did so so as to present her buddy that members of the Bangladesh group weren’t concerned in fixing, not as a result of she was genuinely making a corrupt strategy”.
In her first interview with the ACU, Akhter confirmed the ACU screenshots which she claimed have been a dialog between her and a buddy concerning the “problem”. She mentioned that these messages had been exchanged previous to February 14, when she contacted the Bangladesh participant. The ACU nonetheless confirmed that these recordsdata have been created after February 14 by “reviewing underlying metadata for the messages”.
In deciding on the size of her ban, the ICC mentioned it had thought-about the circumstances of the case, “together with giving Ms Akther credit score for agreeing an end result that avoids the necessity for a listening to and so saves appreciable money and time to be used elsewhere within the struggle towards corruption, and has thought-about related precedents.
“The ICC due to this fact considers {that a} interval of ineligibility of 5 (5) years is cheap and proportionate. Ms Akhter has agreed to this sanction. As such, a interval of ineligibility of 5 (5) years is imposed.”
As such, neither Akhter nor the ICC has any proper of enchantment towards this resolution.
The ACU which oversees all senior worldwide cricket, doesn’t make public data on investigations that don’t result in expenses, however it’s believed {that a} small variety of investigations round ladies’s occasions have taken place prior to now. This, nonetheless, is believed to be the primary time an investigation of an try to corrupt at a ladies’s occasion has reached a conclusion with expenses.
