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On Sunday, January 19, an arrest warrant was issued against Bangladesh cricketer Shakib Al Hasan by a court in Dhaka in regards to the IFIC Bank’s dishonoured cheque case. There are also names of three other individuals in the warrant, which was issued by Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ziadur Rahman after Shakib Al Hasan was named in the fraud case about a dishonoured cheque over a month ago.
In an exclusive report from Cricbuzz, Shakib Al Hasan, who was a former Awami League politician, has been staying overseas in the aftermath of then Prime Minister and political party leader Sheikh Hasina fleeing the country following her ousting from the position last summer. Just a few months later, the court in Dhaka, which had named Shakib Al Hasan in the dishonoured cheque case, ordered him to appear there on January 19 after an initial hearing.
Shakib Al Hasan accused of failing to transfer 41.4 million Taka via two separate cheques to IFIC Bank
With no presence of Shakib Al Hasan at the Dhaka court earlier today, the warrant was issued against him. Moreover, the case was filed in court by Shahibur Rahman, the Relationship Officer of the IFIC Bank, wherein Shakib Al Hasan and three other individuals are accused of failing to honour the commitment of transferring 41.4 million Taka via two separate cheques.
The others implicated in the dishonoured cheque case are Shakib Al Hasan’s company, Al Hasan Agro Farm Ltd., its Managing Director Gazi Shahagir Hossein, and directors Emdadul Haque and Malaikar Begum. It is understood that the company of Shakib Al Hasan had borrowed funds from the Banani Branch of the IFIC Bank from time to time, but they weren’t able to pay the part of the loan back due to insufficient funds.
Meanwhile, Shakib Al Hasan’s cricketing career is also winding down to a close after he wasn’t picked in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 squad of Bangladesh earlier this month apart from failing his bowling action reassessment test.