Shohaly Akhter has been banned for five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Bangladesh.- The International Cricket Council (ICC)<\/strong> has banned Shohaly Akhter<\/strong> for five years after she admitted to fixing matches. The Bangladesh player represented the country in 13 women\u2019s T20I\u2019s and 2 women\u2019s ODI\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the ICC, prior to the Bangladesh v Australia match in the ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup on February 14, 2023, Akhter sent a friend and teammate voice notes via Facebook Messenger in which she tried to persuade her to agree to carry out fixes on future Bangladesh matches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Akhter was found guilty of five breaches of the Anti-Corruption Code<\/strong>.\u00a0The first pertains to Article 2.1.3 on the manipulation or influence of an international match by intentionally underperforming. Akhter also acknowledged breaching Article 2.1.3, which relates to requesting, accepting, or offering a bribe or other incentives to influence a match, and Article 2.1.4 on soliciting and Article 2.4.4 on failing to disclose details invitations to participate in corrupt behaviour. Players are obliged to report such incidents to the ICC\u2019s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU). Lastly, Akhter breached Article 2.4.7 of the Code, which refers to a player impeding or delaying an ACU corruption investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shohaly Akhter has been banned for five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777020164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"A Bangladesh cricket player, Shohaly Akhter, has been issued a five-year ban by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for admitting to multiple breaches of its Anti-Corruption Code, including soliciting match-fixing and impeding an investigation. This incident highlights the persistent integrity risks within sports, underscoring the critical need for robust governance frameworks and stringent regulatory compliance across all associated betting verticals to safeguard market integrity.","focusai_entities":"Shohaly Akhter, International Cricket Council (ICC), ICC Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU)","focusai_location":"Bangladesh","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.7), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"ICC Anti-Corruption Code","query":"What specific enhancements to the ICC's Anti-Corruption Code or its enforcement mechanisms are being considered to deter future integrity breaches, particularly concerning digital communication channels?"},{"label":"Operator Risk Mitigation","query":"How are licensed iGaming operators, particularly those with significant sports betting verticals, enhancing their integrity monitoring protocols and data analytics capabilities to detect and report suspicious betting patterns linked to potential match-fixing?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16334,155],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-777022891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-asia-news","category-sports-betting-news","tag-sports-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777022891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777022898,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022891\/revisions\/777022898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777020164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777022891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777022891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777022891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}