{"id":8995,"date":"2011-04-25T11:06:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T15:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8995"},"modified":"2011-04-25T11:07:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T15:07:33","slug":"grameen-bank-cleared-of-irregularities-but-yunus-will-not-be-re-instated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/25\/grameen-bank-cleared-of-irregularities-but-yunus-will-not-be-re-instated\/","title":{"rendered":"Grameen Bank cleared of &#8220;irregularities&#8221;, but Yunus will not be re-instated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bangladeshi government has completed their investigation into financial irregularities at microfinance specialist Grameen Bank, but the founder, Muhammad Yunus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/apr\/25\/grameen-bank-cleared-irregularities-bangladesh?CMP=twt_fd\" target=\"_blank\">will not be brought back<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yunus, 70, was dismissed by a central bank order &mdash; upheld by the high court and supreme court &mdash; on the grounds that he had overstayed in his position and refused requests to quit.<\/p>\n<p>Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel peace prize, set up Grameen, which means village in Bengali, and had been the bank&#8217;s managing director since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Lauded at home and abroad by politicians and financiers as the &#8220;banker to the poor&#8221;, he has been under attack by the government since late last year, after a Norwegian documentary alleged the bank was dodging taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Yunus denied any wrongdoing and a Norwegian government investigation later also cleared him of any malpractice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bangladeshi government has completed their investigation into financial irregularities at microfinance specialist Grameen Bank, but the founder, Muhammad Yunus, will not be brought back: Yunus, 70, was dismissed by a central bank order &mdash; upheld by the high court and supreme court &mdash; on the grounds that he had overstayed in his position and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,25,9,10],"tags":[598,706,436,91,661],"class_list":["post-8995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-economics","category-law","category-liberty","tag-aging","tag-bangladesh","tag-banking","tag-poverty","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2l5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8997,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions\/8997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}