Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus says some of the companies he founded are now run by outsiders. Yunus, 83, is known for lifting millions of people out of poverty through his pioneering microcredit bank.

He fell out with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who accused him of “sucking the blood” of the poor. Critics accuse Bangladesh's courts of blindly approving the decisions of the government, which has been increasingly firm in its repression of the political opposition.