A court in Dhaka has sentenced Nobel prize-winning microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus, the chairman of Grameen Telecom, and three other company executives to six months in prison for breaching labour laws of Bangladesh. Judge Sheikh Marina Sultana of the Dhaka Third Labour Court delivered the verdict in the case on Monday. The three other suspects in the case are Grameen Telecom Managing Director Ashraful Hasan and directors Nurjahan Begum and Md Shahjahan. The court fined them Tk 5,000 under Section 303 (3) of the Labour Act. Yunus co-shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 with the Grameen Bank - a first for Bangladesh.

Source: bd News24 January 01, 2024 22:12 UTC