The Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, is credited with lifting millions out of poverty in the country of Bangladesh. Grameen became famous for pioneering the concept of microcredit, granting loans of under $100 to Bangladesh's rural poor. That helped spark a worldwide movement which helped win Yunus the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. But a Bangladeshi court now wants to add something else to Yunus's résumé: A six-month prison sentence.
On Monday, a judge in Dhaka convicted Yunus and three executives of Grameen Telecom of failing to create a welfare fund for employees, among other violations of labor law. The judge sentenced Yunus to six months in prison.
