She has alleged US government officials had also threatened her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, an expatriate in that country, with causing 'other problems than Padma funds'. "The American ambassador threatened me at my office (on several occasions) to stop the Padma Bridge funds if Yunus was removed from Grameen Bank as its MD," she told a programme in Munich on Friday. "Assistant Secretary Blake (Robert O Blake) came and spoke in the same tone. Hillary Clinton called me…same thing happened," she said. "Even my son Joy had been called to the State Department thrice.

Source: bd News24 February 17, 2017 19:37 UTC