(Pictures) Umar Akmal : Detailed judgement report

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Detailed judgement on Umar Akmal released

Lahore, 8 May 2020:

The Chairman of the Independent Disciplinary Panel, Mr Justice (retired) Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan late Thursday afternoon submitted his detailed judgement on the Umar Akmal case to the Pakistan Cricket Board.

Justice Chauhan has imposed a ban of three years for each of the two charges of violating the PCB Anti-Corruption Code, which will be deemed to have come into effect from the date of Umar Akmal’s suspension i.e. 20 February 2020. Both periods of ineligibility will run concurrently, meaning Umar Akmal will now become eligible to return to cricket activities on 19 February 2023.

Umar Akmal was charged with two breaches of Article 2.4.4 of the PCB Anti-Corruption Code in two unrelated incidents on 17 March. On 9 April, the PCB referred the matter to Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee after the batsman opted not to request for a hearing before the Anti-Corruption Tribunal.

Justice Chauhan in his remarks said: “It appears that he (Umar Akmal) is not prepared to show remorse and seek apology, make admission that he failed to fulfill his responsibility under Anti-Corruption Code, Article 2.4.4, rather he tried to take refuge under the pretext that in the past whenever any such approaches were made, the matter was reported by him.

“As far as Charge No.1 is concerned, I do not see any circumstances to mitigate the nature of offence, particularly, when the participant (Umar Akmal) has not cooperated with the PCB Vigilance and Security Department and the investigating team.

“In view of the admission of the participant (Umar Akmal) that he failed to disclose to PCB Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Department, the details of the approaches and invitations extended to him without unnecessary delay. The charge as framed is proved and the participant (Umar Akmal) has rendered himself liable to be punished for breach of Article 2.4.4.

“Charge No.2, breach of Article 2.4.4 of the Code by failing to disclose to the PCB Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Department of the PCB, full details of the approaches and invitations received by you (Umar Akmal) to engage in corrupt conduct under the Code in respect of matches in PSL 2020.

“It is also admitted by him (Umar Akmal) that he failed to report the approaches and invitation to the PCB Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Department, as required by the PCB Code, Article 2.4.4. In view of the above charge as framed, stood proven and participant has rendered himself to be punished under Article 6.2 of the PCB Code.”

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[Junaids]

This absurd ruling is even more devastating to the reputation of the PCB than the comical Sharjeel Khan report.

Why does Wasim Khan allow such embarrassing garbage to be published? It just brings the PCB’s reputation into disrepute.

We already knew that the presiding judge was tainted: he took his place on the Supreme Court in defiance of a restraining order and retired as soon as the law caught up with him.

But this illiterate ruling (viz “engaged in A conduct!) destroys the judge’s reputation totally and absolutely.

The Judge confesses at the outset that the defendant had pleaded Guilty and had exercised his right to be sentenced without a hearing.

But in comical contempt of HIS OWN COURT, the So Called Judge freely admits that:

1. The player had been told to turn up simply to hear his sentence.

2. The Judge and PCB then staged the hearing which the Defendant has exercised his right not to have.

3. The Judge’s ruling confesses that he held an unlawful hearing, with the Defendant unrepresented.

4. And that unlawful hearing was held in English, a foreign language that the defendant has very little fluency in, and certainly too little to defend himself in an unlawful ambush hearing.

Could the PCB and Former Judge Chauhan donk any lower?

It’s comical, but it’s also unjust and beneath contempt.

 

[Thunderbolt14]

Key points:
- Umar Akmal is close friends with someone who introduced him to bookies. In other words, Akmal has mutual friends with the bookies and/or mutual friends who have no aversions to introducing him to Bookies. Is this the first time?

- Umar Akmal had a problem which for some reason only a Bookie could solve for him. It is noted in the documentation as a "dispute". What was this problem?

- Umar Akmal has admitted to being approached by suspicious characters, and has admitted that he did not disclose this meeting to the PCB

- Umar Akmal was somehow introduced to these two bookies by a mutual friend who never told him the name of the person he was being introduced to. Even after the investigation and court proceedings had begun, he still did not know the name even though he can easily ask his mutual friend. Either he is deliberately still withholding information, or somehow there was a party hosted by his friend where his friend did not know the names of his guests.

- Tafazzul Rizvi finally won a case.

 

[Junaids]

- Tafazzul Rizvi finally won a case.

Only because the defendant didn’t have a lawyer, or speak the language in which the case was conducted!

 

[Rana]

Only because the defendant didn’t have a lawyer, or speak the language in which the case was conducted!

Good for Shoaib Akhtar that PCB released these documents. More proof of Rizvi’s incompetence

 

[Saj]

Food for thought.

Was he being blackmailed?

Has he been found out for keeping poor company?

 

[MenInG]

Food for thought.

Was he being blackmailed?

Has he been found out for keeping poor company?

Anyone who wanted to save their career would have apologized to the court and got a shorter ban - but he didnt. What advice was he getting?

 

[Savak]

Anyone who wanted to save their career would have apologized to the court and got a shorter ban - but he didnt. What advice was he getting?

Lol, one shouldn't usually say this but this is a unique exception. Umar Akmal should disown his family, they have just abbetted his victimization all these years instead of taking responsibility for his issues and controversies.

 

[HitWicket]

This absurd ruling is even more devastating to the reputation of the PCB than the comical Sharjeel Khan report.

Why does Wasim Khan allow such embarrassing garbage to be published? It just brings the PCB’s reputation into disrepute.

We already knew that the presiding judge was tainted: he took his place on the Supreme Court in defiance of a restraining order and retired as soon as the law caught up with him.

But this illiterate ruling (viz “engaged in A conduct!) destroys the judge’s reputation totally and absolutely.

The Judge confesses at the outset that the defendant had pleaded Guilty and had exercised his right to be sentenced without a hearing.

But in comical contempt of HIS OWN COURT, the So Called Judge freely admits that:

1. The player had been told to turn up simply to hear his sentence.

2. The Judge and PCB then staged the hearing which the Defendant has exercised his right not to have.

3. The Judge’s ruling confesses that he held an unlawful hearing, with the Defendant unrepresented.

4. And that unlawful hearing was held in English, a foreign language that the defendant has very little fluency in, and certainly too little to defend himself in an unlawful ambush hearing.

Could the PCB and Former Judge Chauhan donk any lower?

It’s comical, but it’s also unjust and beneath contempt.

It's not a legal court hearing, it's a disciplinary hearing, most of this is irrelevant.

 

[HitWicket]

Good for Shoaib Akhtar that PCB released these documents. More proof of Rizvi’s incompetence

The lengths you'll go to to try and discredit this bloke are astounding, there's quite literally nothing in this document that indicates any kind of incompetence or malpractice on his part.

 

[Bewal Express]

The lengths you'll go to to try and discredit this bloke are astounding, there's quite literally nothing in this document that indicates any kind of incompetence or malpractice on his part.

After all the damage it's done PK cricket and careers, you think it's ok to have mutual friends with bookies.

 

[HitWicket]

After all the damage it's done PK cricket and careers, you think it's ok to have mutual friends with bookies.

What?

 

[Bewal Express]

What?

Sorry, I thought you were defending UA

 

[silentkiller187]

Food for thought.

Was he being blackmailed?

Has he been found out for keeping poor company?

Sounds like someone has told him to keep quite or else, the fact of the matter is if you associate with these kind of people then the suspicions that arise will be inevitable. Waste of what could have been a promising career, this was the icing on the cake.

 

[CleverSir]

Was he being blackmailed?

Has he been found out for keeping poor company?

Reading this judgment, and considering UA conduct during it with regards to evasive answers, it seems to me that there is something going on in the background with regards to UA's life. Blackmail was my first thought too. Possibly threats to his property/family/life if he discloses information. A completely innocent person would've handled all of this matter through their legal representation. It seems like he just wanted to move past this point, punishment or not, as quickly as possible.

 

[IMMY69]

Ask yourself why he pleaded guilty and why he didn’t want a hearing and why he didn’t want to attend.

Three year ban from cricket or a 5 year prison sentence?

 

[Junaids]

Ask yourself why he pleaded guilty and why he didn’t want a hearing and why he didn’t want to attend.

Three year ban from cricket or a 5 year prison sentence?

Nope.

He had been advised that an early Guilty Plea would attract a 6 month ban backdated to February.

And there is no suggestion that he was offered a fix. He seems simply to have declined to give evidence against a dangerous criminal.

 

[Rana]

The lengths you'll go to to try and discredit this bloke are astounding, there's quite literally nothing in this document that indicates any kind of incompetence or malpractice on his part.

I don’t feel you have a grasp on reality.

 

[Indiafan]

This absurd ruling is even more devastating to the reputation of the PCB than the comical Sharjeel Khan report.

Why does Wasim Khan allow such embarrassing garbage to be published? It just brings the PCB’s reputation into disrepute.

We already knew that the presiding judge was tainted: he took his place on the Supreme Court in defiance of a restraining order and retired as soon as the law caught up with him.

But this illiterate ruling (viz “engaged in A conduct!) destroys the judge’s reputation totally and absolutely.

The Judge confesses at the outset that the defendant had pleaded Guilty and had exercised his right to be sentenced without a hearing.

But in comical contempt of HIS OWN COURT, the So Called Judge freely admits that:

1. The player had been told to turn up simply to hear his sentence.

2. The Judge and PCB then staged the hearing which the Defendant has exercised his right not to have.

3. The Judge’s ruling confesses that he held an unlawful hearing, with the Defendant unrepresented.

4. And that unlawful hearing was held in English, a foreign language that the defendant has very little fluency in, and certainly too little to defend himself in an unlawful ambush hearing.

Could the PCB and Former Judge Chauhan donk any lower?

It’s comical, but it’s also unjust and beneath contempt.

I was wondering when you will finally reveal what you thought. For so many days you were hiding behind - I think umar deserved it and did it to himself though the punishment is harsh. Others got away easily and there are bigger fixer. But I always knew this what you thought, that tour favorites ever getting caught and published is unfair and akmal should have been forgiven like always

 

[chazam]

Some more allegations made by PCB and serious ones.

I feel bad for Pakistani cricket fans, the team is not playing any cricket and still headlines are all about corruptions and scandal. Some decision makers in the 2000's are to blame who did not take stringent steps
back then and this thing has just kept on going till now.

 

[Savak]

The way Umar Akmal has reacted, it appears he is happy to accept a 3 year ban but will not risk revealing who he was contacted by

 

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Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal on Friday decided to file an appeal against the ban imposed on him by the PCB Independent Disciplinary Panel. The controversial batsman was banned from all forms of cricket for three years after pleading guilty to failure to report match-fixing approaches. Umar Akmal started consulting lawyers in this regard. He received the copy of detailed verdict announced by Chief of Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) Independent Disciplinary Panel Justice (retired) Fazal Miran Chauhan.

Justice (retired) Fazal Miran Chauhan on Friday released the detailed verdict of the corruption case against Umar Akmal. The chief of the disciplinary panel remarked that the batsman was not willing to show any remorse or apologise over his actions.

He added that the cricketer failed to fulfill his responsibility under Article 2.4.4 of the Anti-Corruption Code and took refuge under the pretext that he has reported such incidents in the past.

“As far as Charge No.1 is concerned, I do not see any circumstances to mitigate the nature of the offence, particularly, when the participant (Umar Akmal) has not cooperated with the PCB Vigilance and Security Department and the investigating team,” the judge was quoted in a PCB press release.

“In view of the admission of the participant (Umar Akmal) that he failed to disclose to PCB Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Department, the details of the approaches and invitations extended to him without unnecessary delay. The charge as framed is proved and the participant (Umar Akmal) has rendered himself liable to be punished for breach of Article 2.4.4.”

https://www.24newshd.tv/08-May-2020/umar-akmal-decides-to-file-appeal-against-three-year-ban

 

[BoomBoomCricket]

Can't help, but think what the late Abdul Qadir would have made of his son in law here.

 

[chacha kashmiri]

This is like the qayyum commission all over again
Why can't umar akmal be more like usman Qadir

 

[Shafi]

Kamran is more shrewd than Umar for sure. Umar Akmal is just another immature idiot who always find himself in trouble. PCB should open investigation about Kamran who commits lots of suspicious acts during his playing time with so many easy stumping/catching along with some suspicious shots.

 

[Markhor]

Despite the crying from his fans, Umar Akmal has only himself to blame.

Why choose to represent yourself and not hire a legal representative ? Why accept the charges then try to excuse yourself in front of the judge ?

 

[Junaids]

Despite the crying from his fans, Umar Akmal has only himself to blame.

Why choose to represent yourself and not hire a legal representative ? Why accept the charges then try to excuse yourself in front of the judge ?

Because he exercised his right not to have a hearing, and to be sentenced immediately.

Only to turn up and be ambushed with the hearing that he had decided against having, and then it was conducted in English!

 

[Rana]

It's not a legal court hearing, it's a disciplinary hearing, most of this is irrelevant.

Lol

So why did the PCB have their lawyer present if it’s just a disciplinary hearing and not a court hearing?

 

[HitWicket]

Lol

So why did the PCB have their lawyer present if it’s just a disciplinary hearing and not a court hearing?

Because it still loosely follows a similar structure to the legal process, even if it's not bound by the exact same rules as it.

 

[Rana]

Because it still loosely follows a similar structure to the legal process, even if it's not bound by the exact same rules as it.

So Junaids makes a valid claim unlike you claiming that it is irrelevant just because you want to disagree

 

[HitWicket]

So Junaids makes a valid claim unlike you claiming that it is irrelevant just because you want to disagree

His claim would be valid if this was a judicial court hearing, which it's not.

 

[Rana]

His claim would be valid if this was a judicial court hearing, which it's not.

But there was a lawyer present. And this was a simple sentencing, why is he expected to show remorse for his actions if this was not even a trial with a formal session of cross examination?

 

[Junaids]

But there was a lawyer present. And this was a simple sentencing, why is he expected to show remorse for his actions if this was not even a trial with a formal session of cross examination?

It was not a hearing, it was a sentencing. Of course he didn't take a lawyer - he went to learn his punishment and then was ambushed with an unexpected trial in a foreign language.

 

[Rana]

It was not a hearing, it was a sentencing. Of course he didn't take a lawyer - he went to learn his punishment and then was ambushed with an unexpected trial in a foreign language.

Indeed. Complete farce, typical PCB and the ‘Shaatir’ lawyer!

 

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Umar Akmal should just retire and start playing in T20 leagues.

He is finished.

 

[Savak]

Umar Akmal should just retire and start playing in T20 leagues.

He is finished.

Lol he is banned from all cricketing activities for 3 years

 

[Rana]

I recon this ban will be overturned into one year but I agree with [MENTION=141306]sweep_shot[/MENTION]

It’s in his best interest to stop dreaming about representing Pakistan again. He is unwelcome. He is so much better off just playing these T20 leagues and club cricket throughout the world.

 

[Saj]

They should appeal.

It will probably get reduced upon appeal.

 

[Savak]

They should appeal.

It will probably get reduced upon appeal.

Taffazul Rizvi will get an opportunity to bill the PCB more time and hours. Did the PCB and the judge deliberately do this for their own selfish self interests when the whole matter could have been easily dealt with by just giving him a one year ban to begin with?

 

[Rana]

Taffazul Rizvi will get an opportunity to bill the PCB more time and hours. Did the PCB and the judge deliberately do this for their own selfish self interests when the whole matter could have been easily dealt with by just giving him a one year ban to begin with?

Good point. Rizvi will be the overall winner of the situation and nothing good came out of it besides UA banned for one year, which is pretty much pointless because we are all not playing any cricket

 

[MenInG]

They should appeal.

It will probably get reduced upon appeal.

Lahore: Banned middle-order batsman Umar Akmal has decided to challenge his three-year-ban for not reporting match-fixing ban, ARY Sports reported today.

According to the sources, the 29-year-old has taken the services of Babar Awan law firm and for this, they have started preparations for the ban imposed on Umar Akmal.

Umar was handed a three-year ban from all forms of cricket by Chairman of the Disciplinary Panel Mr. Justice (retired) Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan.

Umar pleaded guilty of failing to report approaches made to him. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) suspended him ahead of Pakistan Super League (PSL) season five.

https://arysports.tv/umar-hires-babar-awan-law-firms-against-match-fixing-ban/