NBR launches fresh probe into Yunus’ financial affairs: Al Jazeera

Bangladesh's duty powers have propelled another examination concerning the monetary issues of the Nobel Peace Prize victor Muhammad Yunus, his family and the small scale credit office Grameen Bank that he established, reports Al Jazeera.

A week ago, it said, the focal examination cell of the National Leading group of Income (NBR) sent notification to banks obliging them to give data inside seven days about any records, advances, or other money related instruments held in the most recent seven years either by Yunus, his better half, the Yunus family trust, or Grameen Bank.

The notification, seen by Al Jazeera, were conveyed a week after an assessment official had composed to Yunus advising him the NBR had additionally chosen to review his own government form for the current monetary year, and requesting documentation to "check" his salary and consumption.

As indicated by Al Jazeera, the most recent request is seen by a few spectators as a conceivable new stride in the decision Awami Alliance gathering's quarrel with Yunus, which was at first activated by his endeavor in 2007 to frame a political gathering.

The Al Jazeera report specified that Iftekharuzzaman, head of Bangladesh part of Straightforwardness Global, said the NBR has locale to make such Request yet included in the event that it is politically persuaded, to defraud a man, then it is a reason for concern.

Be that as it may, the PM's media consultant, Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, denied the new NBR Request included any sort of badgering. "These letters are only an issue of a money related establishment getting budgetary data which can happen to any subject, including pastors and businessman,"said Iqbal Sobhan.

In 2010, the administration powers evacuated Yunus as the overseeing executive of Grameen Bank Sabbir Osmani, media representative of the Yunus Center, was cited to have said Yunus was "not in a position to remark" on the NBR sees sent to the banks.

The NBR in 2015 apparently recorded a court body of evidence against Yunus for purportedly neglecting to pay $1.5m in assessment - a charge the Nobel Peace Prize champ called "unmerited". The case was along these lines remained by the High Court, the report called attention to.

Al Jazeera said the NBR letters were sent a few weeks after US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, a solid supporter of Yunus when she was secretary of state, lost the US decision.