Afghanistan's Shafiqullah banned for six years
Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has banned national team player Shafiqullah Shafaq from all varieties of cricket for a period of six years after he accepted four charges linked to the breaching of the ACB Anti-Corruption Code, a media launching from the Afghanistan cricket board read.
The charges relate to the first edition of the Afghanistan Premier League T20 (APL T20) in 2018 and the 2019 edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL).
Listed below are the articles of the Anti-Corruption code which were breached by Shafaq:
Breach of Article 2.1.1 - Fixing or contriving at all or elsewhere influencing improperly, or being a party to any contract or effort to repair or contrive at all or elsewhere influence improperly, the effect, progress, execute or any other aspect of any Domestic Match, incorporating (without limitation) by deliberately underperforming therein."
Breach of Article 2.1.3 - Seeking, accepting, supplying or agreeing to simply accept any bribe or different Reward to (a) resolve or to contrive in any way or otherwise to influence improperly the result, progress, execute or any other aspect of any Domestic Match …"
Breach of Article 2.1.4 - Wanting to solicit, induce, entice, persuade, motivate or intentionally facilitate a Participant to breach Article 2.1."
Breach of Article 2.4.4 - Failing woefully to disclose to the Designated Anti-Corruption Official (without unnecessary delay) full information on any approaches or invitations received by a Participant to activate in Corrupt Carry out under ACB Anti-Corruption Code."
Beneath the provisions of the Code, Shafaq thought we would admit the charges levied against him and decided to the sanctions by ACB in lieu of an Anti-Corruption Tribunal hearing.
Addressing the matter, ACB's Senior Anti-Corruption supervisor, Sayed Anwar Shah Quraishi said: "That is an extremely serious offence in which a senior national player is mixed up in corruption of a high-profile domestic match in APL T20 2018. The player possessed also attempted but didn't get one of is own teammates to engage in corruption in another high-profile game through the BPL 2019."
He concluded that Shafaq is ready to contribute to ACB ACU's future integrity education programs to greatly help younger players learn from his mistakes.
