Ali Jacko, a former five-time world kick-boxing champion, yesterday brought an allegation of extortion against Bangladesh Boxing Federation Secretary.
Ali Jacko, a Bangladesh-born British citizen, brought the allegation at a press briefing at Rajmoni Ishaka Hotel in the capital.
“When I won the boxing championship for the first time, I decided to do something for our country. And to do soI started contacting the Ministry of Sports and came to Bangladesh on November 1 the same year,” Jacko said.
“Before I came to Bangladesh to boxing federation, the ministry told me that I could be able to choose boxers by myself.”
But Boxing Federation Secretary Kuddus Khan opposed it and put forward some conditions saying “I have to pay him Tk7,00,000 for each of the boxers I pick up.”
Kuddus also wanted his son to be included in the training team, he alleged.
As, he said, he denied Kuddus told him that Jacko could not take boxers this way: “I have came to Bangladesh formally after contacting with the ministry.”
Jacko blamed some media for publishing negative report on him.
He strongly believed that federation Secretary Kuddus influenced those media correspondents to run stories against him.
Jacko further said: “The more surprising part is that someone named Aminul Islam with whom I have never met filed a case against me on charge of trafficking young people.”
He said he only knows one FIR-listed person who is his Personal Secretary Shafiqul Islam while he claimed he was not at all acquainted with other two persons named Mizan and Abul Hossain.
Second FIR-listed accused in the FIR was shown as his driver, he said.
According to the case statement Jacko met Aminul at Longbitch Hotel lobby at Gulshan-2 on November 14 where Jacko used to stay and took Tk7,00,000 from Aminul in exchange for providing a job to his brother Mehedi Hassan in Britain.
Jacko denied the allegation.
He termed it a false, baseless and fabricated saying that Kuddos brought the allegation as he refused to pay him.
“I don’t know, how, the magistrate of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court just issued a warrant against me without verifying the case paper. It is my personal opinion that I think the court needs to be more careful about it,” added Jacko.
The Dhaka Tribune contacted Secretary of Boxing Federation MA Kuddus Khan. He refuting the allegation, said: “I have no personal enmity with Jacko. Why should I file a case against him.”
“This is not the first time, Jacko was spreading misleading information about me. I have already sent a letter to the Sports Ministry to take action against him,” added Kuddus.
