As part of a wider crackdown on illegal betting, the Bangladesh Cricket Board has confirmed that it will make match-fixing a criminal offense after players in the Bangladesh Premier League were flagged for suspicious activity, following the promotion of sports betting ads by broadcast platforms.
The news was confirmed by the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s Integrity Units legal counsel, Mahin M Rahman, speaking exclusively with Telecom Asia Sport.
He confirmed that the Bangladesh Cricket Board would work with government authorities to introduce legal frameworks targeting fixing and corruption in sport.
The new framework has been proposed to simplify and provide structure for addressing corruption, as current frameworks deal with corruption through both the Anti-Corruption Code and the Gambling Act.
