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Bangladeshi Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus was indicted in a corruption case on June 12, the latest charges to proceed against the respected economist that supporters say are politically motivated.Ground conflict widens in Mideast following resignation in Israeli war cabinet
Yunus, 83, is credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his pioneering microfinance bank but has earned the enmity of longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has accused him of"sucking blood" from the poor. The indictment, brought by the national anti-corruption agency, accuses Yunus and 13 others of embezzling $2.1 million from Grameen Telecom, one of several firms he founded.
He said that being forced to spend the hearing sitting inside one of the cages recently introduced into Bangladeshi courtrooms to hold defendants had been"humiliating."It owns a 34 percent stake in the country's largest mobile phone network, worth billions of dollars.
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