Muhammad Yunus was charged underneath dozens of circumstances throughout Sheikh Hasina’s regime.
Dhaka:
Muhammad Yunus was on Sunday acquitted in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Fee, three days after he took oath as the top of Bangladesh’s interim authorities, in keeping with a media report.
Choose Md Rabiul Alam of the Particular Choose’s Courtroom-4 of Dhaka accepted the Anti-Corruption Fee’s utility which was filed with the court docket, searching for withdrawal of prosecution of the case, following part 494 of 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, a Dhaka court docket acquitted Yunus and three prime officers of Grameen Telecom – Ashraful Hassan, M Shahjahan and Nurjahan Begum – in a labour regulation violation case.
Yunus, the 84-year-old economist, on Thursday took oath because the chief adviser of the interim authorities.
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 working the state’s affairs.
Yunus had been in a protracted row with the Sheikh Hasina authorities resulting from 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 overview of the statutory Grameen Financial institution’s actions in 2011 and fired Yunus as its founding managing director on fees of violating the federal government retirement regulation.
Yunus was charged underneath dozens of circumstances throughout Hasina’s regime.
In January, a court docket sentenced Yunus to 6 months in jail on fees of labour regulation violation.
Many individuals imagine Hasina turned enraged when Yunus introduced that he would type a political get together in 2007 when a military-backed authorities ran the nation and Hasina was in jail.
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