Muhammad Yunus was charged beneath 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, based on a media report.

Decide Md Rabiul Alam of the Particular Decide’s Court docket-4 of Dhaka accepted the Anti-Corruption Fee’s software which was filed with the courtroom, in search of 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 Day by day Star newspaper.

On August 7, a Dhaka courtroom acquitted Yunus and three prime officers of Grameen Telecom – Ashraful Hassan, M Shahjahan and Nurjahan Begum – in a labour legislation 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 is able to 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 sequence of investigations in opposition to him after she got here to energy in 2008.

Bangladesh authorities launched a assessment of the statutory Grameen Financial institution’s actions in 2011 and fired Yunus as its founding managing director on prices of violating the federal government retirement regulation.

Yunus was charged beneath dozens of circumstances throughout Hasina’s regime.

In January, a courtroom sentenced Yunus to 6 months in jail on prices of labour legislation violation.

Many individuals consider Hasina turned enraged when Yunus introduced that he would kind a political get together in 2007 when a military-backed authorities ran the nation and Hasina was in jail.

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