Shawdesh Desk:

The Anti-Corruption Commission interrogated Nobel laureate and Grameen Telecom chairman professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday in connection with a case filed over embezzlement and laundering Tk 25.22 crore from the company’s Workers Profit Participation Fund.

Professor Yunus appeared at the commission’s Segunbagicha headquarters at about 9:35am following the ACC’s summons in the case.

Later, a team of ACC, led by its deputy director Gulshan Anwar Prodhan, interrogated him over the allegations, said ACC officials.

He left the ACC office at about 11:00am.

Professor Yunus didn’t make any comment to media while entering the ACC office; but his lawyer Abdullah Al Mamun said, ‘Professor Yunus has respected the law by following the ACC’s summon.’

Professors Yunus’ lawyer Abdullah Al Mamun was with him during the interrogation.

The commission also interrogated Grameen Telecom’s managing director Md Nazmul Islam and former managing director Md Ashraful Hasan.

The commission on Wednesday interrogated Grameen Telecom’s three directors — Naznin Sultana, Nurjahan Begum, and SM Hazzatul Islam Latifi over the same allegations.

On September 27, ACC summoned eight officials of Grameen Telecom including professor Yunus to appear at the commission in connection with the case.

On May 30 this year, the ACC filed a case against professor Yunus and 12 others under the money laundering act for their alleged involvement in appropriation of the money.

The other accused in the case are — Grameen Telecom’s directors Parvin Mahmud, and Md Shahjahan, lawyers Md Yusuf Ali and Zafrul Hasan Sharif, Grameen Telecom Shramik-Karmachari Union president Md Quamruzzaman, general secretary Firoz Mahmud, and representative Md Mainul Islam.