2024-01-01 12:29:41
Muhammad Yunus leaves a court in Dhaka, January 1, 2024. MUNIR UZ ZAMAN / AFP
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus was found guilty on Monday, January 1, of violating labor laws in Bangladesh, a prosecutor reported to Agence France-Presse (AFP), in a case that his Supporters consider it politically motivated.
“Professor Yunus and three of his Grameen Telecom colleagues were found guilty under labor laws and sentenced to six months in prison”, declared prosecutor Khurshid Alam Khan to AFP. The four suspects were immediately released on bail pending appeal, he added.
The economist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, and his three collaborators were accused of not having created a provident fund within the company, founded by Mr. Yunus, and of thus having violated the law work. They reject these accusations.
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A hundred other accusations
Muhammad Yunus, 83, faces around 100 other charges relating to alleged labor violations and allegations of corruption.
He is credited with lifting millions of people out of poverty through his pioneering microcredit bank, but he fell out with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who accused him of “suck blood” poor.
The economist was considered on the political scene as a rival to Ms. Hasina, almost assured of winning a fifth mandate in the legislative elections which are to be held on Sunday and which the opposition is boycotting.
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