Nobel laureate Yunus appears before Bangladesh graft watchdog

Muhammad Yunus is facing around 175 separate cases related to social business firms he set up.

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and his lawyers arrive at the Anti-Corruption Commission office in Dhaka.

He is facing around 175 separate criminal and labour tribunal cases related to social business firms he set up in Bangladesh aimed at creating jobs and bringing services to the poor. Khaja Tanvir Ahmed, another lawyer for Yunus, said he was interrogated for more than an hour in the office. In August, 160 global figures including former US president Barack Obama and ex-UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon published a joint letter against the “continuous judicial harassment” of the micro-credit pioneer.

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