An arrest warrant was issued by a Bangladeshi court on Sunday against cricket star Shakib Al Hasan under a bounced-cheque charge amounting to more than $300,000, the latest affront to the ousted lawmaker. “The court had summoned Shakib earlier, but he did not appear before the court”, said Mohammad Shahibur Rahman of the IFIC Bank, which filed the case. “Now, the court has issued the warrant against him”, he said. Shakib is a former lawmaker from the party of autocratic ex-leader Sheikh Hasina, who was overthrown by the revolution and fled by helicopter to India in August 2024.
His ties to Hasina made him a target of public anger and he found himself among dozens facing murder investigations for a deadly police crackdown on the protesters during the uprising.
He has not been charged over those allegations.
While playing in a domestic Twenty20 cricket competition in Canada, Shakib’s government fell and he failed to come back to Bangladesh since.
He has played 71 Tests, 247 ODIs, and 129 T20s for Bangladesh, and totalled 712 wickets.
However, he did not make it into the 15-man squad for next month’s Champions Trophy one-day international tournament in Pakistan and Dubai.
Najmul Hossain Shanto will captain the side, with Bangladesh placed in Group A among India, Pakistan and New Zealand.
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