An internal US enquiry found no evidence of Hillary Clinton-led State Department pressurizing Bangladeshi government to drop its investigation into Muhammad Yunus case. The investigation was carried out after a senior Republican Senator wrote a letter to the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that the State Department, under Hillary Clinton, had pressurized the Bangladeshi government to drop its case against the Nobel laureate. “The department completed its review of records and informed the Congressional Oversight Committee that we have no record of any communication or action to support the allegations that the department had pressurized the government of Bangladesh to drop its investigation into Muhammad Yunus,” a State Department Spokesperson said. If not, why?”Grassley said that according to Joy, he had a number of interactions with high-level State Department officials from 2010-2012. “He [Joy] recalled that in almost every meeting the Yunus investigation would inevitably come up and that he faced pressure to end the investigation,” Grassley added.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 21, 2018 11:48 UTC