Staffer sends entries for US event, BFI clueless
The Boxing Federation of India is looking into a situation where one of its employees entered a team into a competition in the USA without permission. Suhail Pervez, who worked as the competition manager at the Women’s World Championships in New Delhi, sent seven names to USA Boxing for a tournament in July. However, the list had only two boxers’ names and the other five names were support staff. Pervez was named as the coach and his wife Anam Ruzma as the manager. USA Boxing asked BFI for confirmation in June, but BFI never replied. Referee Kuldeep Sharma filed a complaint with BFI because the team couldn’t go. Sharma claimed that the whole process was done to obtain a US visa. First of all, we want to make it clear that the message sent to US Boxing was not an official communication from the Boxing Federation of India (BFI). It seems like one of BFI’s workers sent it,” BFI said to The Tribune. “We are already investigating it internally. ” We consider these matters very important because they can affect our organization. The statement also mentioned that Pervez stated the entries were sent for a competition that anyone knew the US organizers would email the BFI to confirm. Pervez also mentioned that the person filing the complaint has been trying to damage the federation’s reputation because they haven’t been given any tasks. “Also, we paid for this training ourselves. And when we couldn’t afford it, none of us attended,” Pervez explained. I wanted my wife to come with me on the trip because we funded it ourselves and she was chosen as the team manager. He said he wanted to visit their training centers and bring back some of their ideas.
