Muhammad Yunus was accused of dozens of cases during Sheikh Hasina’s regime.
Dhaka:
Muhammad Yunus was acquitted on Sunday in a corruption case brought by the Anti-Corruption Commission, three days after he was sworn in as head of Bangladesh’s interim government, according to a media report.
Judge Md Rabiul Alam of Dhaka Special Judges’ Court-4 accepted the Anti-Corruption Commission’s application that was submitted to the court, requesting withdrawal of the charge in the case under section 494 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, an anti-Corruption official -the graft agency was cited by The Daily Star newspaper.
On August 7, a Dhaka court acquitted Yunus and three senior Grameen Telecom officials – Ashraful Hassan, M Shahjahan and Nurjahan Begum – in a case of labor law violations.
Yunus, the 84-year-old economist, was sworn in on Thursday as the interim government’s chief adviser.
Nurjahan Begum, who has also been accused in the corruption case, is a member of the 16-member Council of Advisors that will help Yunus in managing the state’s affairs.
Yunus has been in a protracted dispute with Sheikh Hasina’s government due to unclear reasons, while authorities launched a series of investigations against him after she came to power in 2008.
Bangladesh authorities launched a review of Grameen Bank’s statutory activities in 2011 and fired Yunus as its founding managing director on charges of violating government retirement regulation.
Yunus was accused of dozens of cases during Hasina’s regime.
In January, a court sentenced Yunus to six months in prison on charges of violating labor legislation.
Many people believe Hasina was furious when Yunus announced he would form a political party in 2007, when a military-backed government was ruling the country and Hasina was in prison.
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