Dhaka: Muhammad Yunus was Sunday acquitted in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Fee over the misappropriation of funds from the Grameen Telecom Employees and Workers Welfare Fund, three days after he took oath as the top of Bangladesh’s interim authorities, in keeping with a media report.
Decide Md Rabiul Alam of the Particular Decide’s Courtroom-Four of Dhaka gave the order after accepting the graft company’s software, looking for to withdraw the case underneath the Code of Felony Process, an official of the anti-graft company was quoted as saying by The Each day Star newspaper.
On August 7, the Labour Appellate Tribunal acquitted the Nobel laureate and three prime officers of Grameen Telecom – Ashraful Hassan, M Shahjahan and Nurjahan Begum – in a labour regulation violation case wherein they have been sentenced to 6 months’ imprisonment and fined Tk 30,000 every in January.
Yunus, the 84-year-old economist, on Thursday took oath because the interim authorities’s chief adviser – a place equal to the prime minister.
Nurjahan Begum, who was additionally an accused within the graft case, is a member of the 16-member Council of Advisers, which can help Yunus in operating the state’s affairs.
Yunus had been in a protracted row with the Sheikh Hasina authorities on account of obscure causes whereas authorities initiated a collection of investigations in opposition to him after she got here to energy in 2008.
Bangladesh authorities launched a evaluation of the statutory Grameen Financial institution’s actions in 2011 and fired Yunus as its founding managing director on expenses of violating the federal government retirement regulation.
Yunus was charged underneath dozens of circumstances throughout Hasina’s regime.
Many individuals consider Hasina turned enraged when Yunus introduced that he would kind a political occasion in 2007 when a military-backed authorities ran the nation and Hasina was in jail.
