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    Yet Another Chargesheet Against Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus

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    Yet Another Chargesheet Against Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus

    The Commission cleared the way to submit the chargesheet against them after deputy director of ACC Md Gulshan Anwar filed the case against Muhammad Yunus and 12 others for allegedly embezzling Taka 250 million.

    Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday approved a chargesheet against Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and 13 others in a graft case. This is the latest addition to the legal troubles directed at Dr Yunus.

    The Commission cleared the way to submit the chargesheet against them after deputy director of ACC Md Gulshan Anwar filed the case with its Dhaka-1 integrated district office against Yunus and 12 others for allegedly embezzling Taka 250 million (25 crore) from the company on 30 May 2023.

    The charge against Dr Yunus is that he presided over Grameen Telecom’s 108th board meeting that paved the way for the company to open a bank account in a branch of the Dhaka Bank Limited. But, investigations revealed that the account was indeed opened a day prior to the meeting and that the decision of the meeting was only covering up the lapse.

    The ACC says that over Taka 260 million (26 crore) was transferred to the account on different occasions, as per ‘fake settlement agreements’ and decision of the board. But, before even distributing the share of the company’s profit to the workers, and letting them know, Dr Yunus, in collusion with others embezzled about Taka 250 million (25 crore) from the fund.

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    The other accused in the case are Grameen Telecom Managing Director Nazmul Islam, its directors Ashraful Hasan, Naznin Sultana, Parvin Mahmud, Md Shahjahan, Nurjahan Begum and SM Huzzatul Islam Latifee, Sramik-Karmachari Union President Md Kamruzzaman and its General Secretary Firoz Mahmud Hasan, lawyers Zafrul Hasan Sharif and Yusuf Ali and representative Md Mainul Islam.

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