DHAKA, Oct 15, 2023 (BSS) - A court here today set January 3 for submitting 
probe report in a case filed against Grameen Telecom Chairman and Nobel 
Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and 12 others for allegedly embezzling Taka 25 
crore from the company.

Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Asaduzzaman set the date afresh as the 
investigation agency Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) failed to submit the 
report today.

On May 30, Deputy Director of the ACC Md Gulshan Anwar filed the case with 
its integrated district office Dhaka-1. 

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 at Gulshan branch of Dhaka Bank Limited. But, it was found that the 
account was opened a day before the decision was even made.

More than Taka 26 crore was transferred to the account on different 
occasions, as per 'fake settlement agreements' and decision of the board.
But before even distributing the share of the company's profit to the 
workers, and letting them know, the accused embezzled around Taka 25 crore 
from the fund.