The headquarters of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) in Mirpur on Tuesday (April 15) was raided by the officials of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Bangladesh after the allegations of corruption against the governing body. According to media reports, a special three-member team from ACC raided BCB headquarters in Mirpur around 12 pm on Tuesday. “We came here today from the ACC’s head office to conduct an enforcement operation. The main issue of the complaint was corruption in the selection process of various cricket leagues under the Bangladesh Cricket Board. This enforcement operation is being conducted based on allegations of illegal transactions and various other irregularities,” ACC official Mahmudul Hasan was quoted as saying at a media briefing. “We had specific complaints today, particularly regarding the 2023 team selection for the Third Division Qualifying round. In previous years, the application fee was set at Tk 5 lakh. At that time, only two or three teams would apply, and one or two would be selected from those. This time, when the fee was reduced to Tk 1 lakh, 60 teams applied. We have collected the documents and will now verify and investigate these matters,” he added. “There was also a matter related to ticket sales. From the 3rd to the 10th season of the BPL, BCB had income from ticket sales. It was shown that the revenue from those eight seasons amounted to 15 crore taka. But in the 11th season, when BCB sold tickets themselves, the income was reported to be around 13 crore taka,” Mahmudul was quoted as saying by Bangladesh media.