Who's getting TT's money?
The Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) has recently discovered financial anomalies in Bangladesh Table Tennis Federation's (BTTF) training camp for the upcoming South Asian Games.
Since the start of the BTTF training camp on August 20, the federation has shown the presence of Indian coach Soumik Kar and took Tk 54,000 for two-month allowances from the BOA but the reality is the Indian coach is yet to arrive in Bangladesh.
The BOA training and development committee investigated the matter recently and asked the game's governing body to reimburse the money. The committee also found that the players were not attending the camp regularly, yet the federation is regularly paying their daily allowances with money from the BOA, which is running the camp for the SA Games to be held in India from February 6 next year.
As the committee also found the absence of four players in the camp, the BOA allocated Tk 3,48,400 against Tk 4,44,500 submitted by the BTTF as advance payment for the month of November.
When asked about the issue, BTTF general secretary, Khandokar Hasan Monir said: “We took the money from the BOA after being ensured that he (Soumik) will arrive in Dhaka on time, but he could not come due to dengue fever.”
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