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Fund embezzlement case

Probe report against Dr Yunus Mar 3

Thursday, 4 January 2024


A Dhaka court has set March 3 for submitting probe report in a case filed against Grameen Telecom and Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and 12 others for allegedly embezzling Tk 250 million from the company, reports BSS.
As the investigation agency Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) failed to submit the probe report, Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Asaduzzaman set a new date in the case on Wednesday, taking the matter into consideration,.
ACC deputy director Md Gulshan Anwar on May 30, 2023, filed the case with its Dhaka-1 integrated district office.
The other accused in the case are Grameen Telecom Managing Director Nazmul Islam, directors Ashraful Hasan, Naznin Sultana, Parvin Mahmud, Md Shahjahan, Nurjahan Begum and SM Huzzatul Islam Latifee, Sramik-Karmachari Union President Md Kamruzzaman and General Secretary Firoz Mahmud Hasan, lawyers Zafrul Hasan Sharif and Yusuf Ali and representative Md Mainul Islam.
According to the case documents, a decision was made on the company's 108th board meeting, presided over by Dr Yunus on May 9, 2022, to open a bank account with Gulshan branch of Dhaka Bank Limited. But it was found that the account was opened a day before the decision was even made.