Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus and 13 others were indicted in Dhaka Wednesday for allegedly embezzling over $2 million from his telecom company.
The indictment, brought by Bangladesh’s anti-corruption agency, charges Yunus with misusing funds from the worker’s welfare fund at Grameen Telecom, one of several companies he has founded, and engaging in money laundering.
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