Bangladesh’s Chief Advisor, Muhammad Yunus, has been acquitted in a bribery case involving the alleged misappropriation of funds from the Grameen Telecom Workers and Employees Welfare Fund.
The Anti-Corruption Commission or ACC had initially brought the case against Yunus, but on Sunday, Justice Md Rabiul Alam of the Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-4 delivered the verdict, following the ACC’s request to withdraw the case under the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Grameen Shikkha Health Advisor and Managing Director Nurjahan Begum was implicated in the bribery case. This acquittal follows Yunus’s recent exoneration in a separate case related to labour law violations. On August 7, the Labour Appellate Tribunal overturned Yunus’s six-month jail sentence in a case concerning labour law infractions.
