Conspiracy, lies, treachery, diversion, ungratefulness, and blame games are the common features of Nobel laureate and former Grameen Bank managing director Prof Muhammad Yunus. He would take credit for positive elements and never admit his faults or crimes—be it a tax evasion case or benefits from a friend or well-wisher. He has no shame.

The Bangladesh Chief Adviser recently lied about his contact with the students while talking to Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times in a podcast in late January.

See how:

Q: And where were you at this point?

Yunus: I was in Paris…

Q: And so how did you then get the call and come back?

Yunus: That day (August 5) when the first call came, I was in the hospital just for a small operation. So they called. I was watching the news everyday on the mobile phone what is happening in Bangladesh. They said she left. Now we have to have a government. Please form the government for us. I said, no, I’m not the one. I don’t know anything about it and I don’t want to get involved with it.

Q: Who was it who contacted you?

Yunus: Students. I don’t know these guys. Never heard of them. Never knew them…

But his lies were recently debunked by an adviser and leaders of his King’s party, the Jatiya Nagorik Party, in several Facebook posts. Abdul Hannan Masud, a former student coordinator and now leader of the newly formed Jatiya Nagorik Party, a brainchild of Yunus, said he got the first message from Prof Yunus via US-based Right to Freedom’s former executive director and BNP-linked journalist based in Washington, Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey (now ambassador), on the evening of August 1.

Another coordinator, SM Shahed Emon, said the then-president of Islami Chhatra Shibir’s Dhaka University unit, Abu Shadik Kayem, was the first to contact the Nobel laureate via email on August 2 or 3. The email was written by DU Shibir’s general secretary (now president), SM Farhad.

Zulkarnain Saer, a sacked army officer who works for Bangla Outlook and the Al Jazeera investigation team, also confirms the correspondence between Kayem and Yunus.

The most credible information comes from interim government Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, who, in a Facebook post, recently said that after being freed from the DB police custody on August 1, he contacted Badiul Alam Majumder and Prof Ali Riaz (who were made heads of two of the reform commissions). Then, he reached out to Dr Yunus through his personal assistants, Moin Ahmed and Shabbir Ahmad. Asif added that he later spoke to Dr Yunus every day from August 2-5.

Moreover, it is learned that several persons close to Yunus, who later became advisers of the interim government, were holding meetings with the army and the US embassy in Dhaka to decide about the head of state ahead of then-premier Sheikh Hasina’s travel to India on August 5.