Ex-national footballer Kaiser Hamid arrested

Send
Bangla Tribune Report
Published : 22:55, Jan 20, 2019 | Updated : 22:57, Jan 20, 2019

A towering central defender, Kaisar Hamid Kaiser was captain of the national football team for many years.Former national footballer Kaiser Hamid has been arrested on charges of fraud.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) held him from a hotel at Dhaka’s Elephant Road around 10pm on Sunday (Jan 20).
CID Special Superintendent Abdullah Hel Baki told Bangla Tribune that Kaiser stands accused of defrauding people in multi-level marketing firm New Way Society Ltd.
He has been arrested in a 2014 case filed with the Banani police station in Dhaka.
A towering central defender, Kaisar Hamid Kaiser was captain of the national football team for many years.
He is the son of prominent chess player Rani Hamid, a women's chess International Master.
Kaiser’s father, the late MA Hamid, who retired from the Bangladesh Army as a lieutenant colonel, was also a noted sport personality. He had received numerous awards, including the National Sports Award.
Soon after retiring from football in the early 90s, Kaiser entered politics. He ran with Zaker Party’s ticket in the national election.
In 2008, he was sued for attempted murder for allegedly hitting a doctor of a state-owned hospital on the head with a pistol.
Kaiser once again made news headline in 2011, when police detained former Nigerian footballer Emeka Ezeugo in possession of his licensed revolver.

/arr/zmi/
Top