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Muhammad Yunus was sworn in as the head of the interim government of Bangladesh on August 8.
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, head of Bangladesh’s interim government, has been acquitted in a corruption case. Bangladesh Anti Corruption Commission had filed a case against Yunus in connection with corruption.
An interim government was formed in Bangladesh just 3 days ago. A day before the formation of the interim government, Yunus was acquitted in a case related to violation of labor laws. Noor Jahan Begum, who was an advisor in the government, was also acquitted in the corruption case.
According to the Bangladeshi newspaper Daily Star, the Anti Corruption Commission has withdrawn its complaint filed in the Dhaka Court. Earlier on August 5, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had to flee the country due to violence.
Allegations of corruption and violation of rules in Grameen Telecom
Mohammad Yunus was accused of violating labor laws while he was the chairman of Grameen Telecom. Apart from Yunus, Grameen Telecom directors Ashraful Hasan, Mohammad Shahjahan and Noorjahan Begum, a member of the current interim government, were also accused of violating labor laws.
On January 1 this year, all the accused were sentenced to 6 months imprisonment with a fine of Rs 20 thousand.
Apart from this, in June, the Anti Corruption Commission had filed a corruption case against Yunus and 13 other people. All of them were accused of embezzling about Rs 18 crore from the profit fund of the employees of Grameen Telecom. Yunus has been acquitted in this case today.
After teaching economics for years, I called it useless
Mohammad Yunus is a social worker, banker and economist. He was born on 28 June 1940 in slave and undivided India. He was born in Chittagong, Bengal to a jeweler, Haji Mohammad Shoudagar. After initial studies in economics from Dhaka University, he moved to America. Where he did PhD and started teaching economics.
Yunus returned to the country after the independence of Bangladesh. He took over as the head of the Economics Department at Chittagong University. This was the time when the condition of the country was not good. After the 1971 war, millions of people in Bangladesh were starving for two meals a day.
Entered politics after receiving Nobel Prize
Because of lifting people out of poverty, Muhammad Yunus came to be known as ‘friend of the poor’ and ‘banker of the poor’. In 2006, Grameen Bank and Muhammad Yunus were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for eradicating poverty.
On 18 February 2007, Yunus formed a political party named ‘Nagarik Shakti’. He said that he would include only people with clean image in this party.
Yunus intended to contest the 2008 elections. For this, he added big names to his party, which included professors and famous journalists. However, it was said at that time that the army was behind Yunus’s move.
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