COURT CORRESPONDENT

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday submitted before a Dhaka court the charge sheet of a case filed against Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and 13 others over the misappropriation of about Tk 25.22 crore of Grameen Telecom Workers’ Profit Participation Fund.

The charge sheet was filed yesterday with the Metropolitan Senior Special Judge’s Court of Dhaka by the investigation officer Gulshan Anwar Prodhan, a deputy director of the ACC.

The hearing on the acceptance of the charge sheet will be held on March 3, said court sources.

Nazmul Islam, the managing director of Grameen Telecom; Ashraful Hassan, Naznin Sultana, Parvin Mahmud, M Shahjahan, Nurjahan Begum and SM Huzzatul Islam Latifee, all directors of Grameen Telecom are also accused.

Kamruzzaman, president of Sramik-Karmachari Union, Firoz Mahmud Hasan, its general secretary, and Mainul Islam, its representative, are co-accused along with Kamrul Hasan, office secretary of Jatiya Workers Federation, and lawyers Zafrul Hasan Sharif and Yusuf Ali.

All 14 accused have been shown as fugitives in the charge sheet, which was approved by the ACC on January 29 after Prodhan filed the case with the ACC’s integrated district office in Dhaka on May 30 last year.

The investigator also appealed to the court to issue arrest warrants against the fugitives.

Only Parvin Mahmud, who is the wife of Jatiyo Party lawmaker Anisul Islam Mahmud, is now on bail in the case.

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