By Afshain Afzal

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has committed an unpardonable crime due to his vested personal interest and venom against the Bangla nation, he cheated and destroyed the pride of Bangladesh 'Grameen Bank', created illegally numerous business companies from this Government-owned non-profit entity and sold to the foreigners. He was involved in money laundering and still continuing it without any fear or regret. If we recall, Norway blamed Muhammad Yunus as Government appointed head of the Grameen Bank, in breach of the agreement he transferred nearly $100m of Norwegian aid from Grameen Bank to other parts of Grameen including Grameen Kalyan in 1998. Later, Muhammad Shahjahan, his Advisor, who was General Manager of Grameen Bank from August 2011 to October 2014 settled violation by claiming that they had transferred the fund to 'save tax', but not to 'evade tax'. Nobody at that time had any idea that Muhammad Yunus despite being a government employee illegally created part of his business empire of 30 companies as the Grameen group of companies.

The story revolves around Grameen America, the Grameen Foundation, and other businesses that support microcredit. Muhammad Yunus has been deputed to support refugees from India, Bihar, and neigbourhood including the displaced Rohingya population in Bangladesh and sideline the original inhabitants of Bangladesh “the Bengali majority” who still follow orthodox Islam. That is not all but he is also switching the fruits of Grameen from Bangladesh to India and other foreign entities. No one can deny the fact that Muhammad Yunus created ‘Yunus Social Business Global Initiatives’ (YSB) in 2011 without the Government of Bangladesh’s approval and made at least three partners and many others behind this business organization. YSB was co-founded by Muhammad Yunus, dual-nationality holder of US and Bangladesh, and German national holders; Saskia Bruysten and Sophie Eisenmann. YSB’s prime focus in on India instead of marginalized people of Bangladesh.

Muhammad Ibrahim, brother of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus writes in his book, “People and Science - An enthusiast’s memoir 1950 – 90” about partition and how his family in Niribili in Chittagong employed a special tutor to get acquainted with Bangla and Arabic and the family had extended relationship in India, Iran and Burma. Ibrahim narrates in his book that Muhammad Yunus was associated leftist student union of Chittagong USPP (United Students Progressive Party) considered as pseudo-communists bent on destroying the democracy, heritage and religion of Bangladeshis and that USPP was acting as an agent of India helping in realizing the latter’s political and cultural design on us. Being Secretary of USPP. Muhammad Yunus contested elections but his party USPP was defeated. Ibrahim is right that Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will destroy democracy, heritage and religion of Bangladeshis and is acting as an agent of India and the US as will as where his extended family hails from.

The Indian direct intervention and blessing from the West was quite visible when on 6 August 2024, when Bangladeshi president Mohammed Shahabuddin nominated Muhammad Yunus to serve as the head of the interim government of Bangladesh, despite the fact he was facing corruption cases and he, along with his three colleagues were sentenced to six months in jail and was ordered to clear all taxes against his business companies. Although Sheikh Hasina Wajed is still the legitimate Prime Minister of Bangladesh as she never resigned nor requested the President to dissolve the parliament and constitution does not support reelections or appointment of Muhammad Yunus as head of the interim government of Bangladesh but why there was an Indian backed intervention in Bangladesh is quite evident? Muhammad Yunus is the same person who claimed to be the right hand of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from the US during the war of independence and today he is the mastermind behind of insulting national hero and destruction of Bangabandhu belongings including his statues through students.

There are serious questions that must be answered including how Muhammad Yunus is the owner of Grameen Bank or its derivatives or the offshoots? We know that he was a lecturer of Economics at Government College and continued on his return to Bangladesh in 1972 and later he was employed in the Government-owned Grameen Bank dismissed by the Central Bank of Bangladesh in March 2011 for misuse of authority and violations. The Government-funded Grameen Bank project started in 1976 as an action research pilot project in "Jobra" village in Chattogram district of Bangladesh that through an ordinance of the Bangladesh government dated 2 October 1983, was converted into the Grameen Bank. Isn’t Muhammad Yunus illegally using the names of Grameen and derivative trademarks, which are protected by intellectual property rights? In May 2024, the World Bank and many other donors approved over US $ 1 billion for refugees and host the community. It is high time that all the aid coming to Bangladesh should be deposited directly in the Grameen Bank owned by the Government of Bangladesh and not the illegally created offshoots businesses having shares of foreign nations and companies.