While at the State Department, Hillary Clinton threatened the son of the Bangladeshi Prime Minister with an IRS audit to try to stop that government from investigating a close friend.

In an exclusive report, The Daily Caller has uncovered evidence that the State Department exerted the pressure after they discovered a Bangladesh government commission was investigating charges of financial mismanagement at Grameen Bank. The managing director of the bank was Muhammad Yunus, a major donor to the Clinton Foundation.

Threatened With An Audit: Speaking to The Daily Caller, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, the son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and a permanent US resident, said he was threatened with an IRS audit. It’s the first known example that the Clintons directly used the power of the IRS to intimidate the relative of a nation’s head of state on behalf of a rich donor.

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Wazeed said it was “astounding and mind-boggling” that top State Department officials between 2010 and 2012 consistory and repeatedly pressured him to influence his mother – the prime minister – to drop the commission’s investigation.

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“They would say over and over again, ‘Yunus has powerful friends’ and we all knew they were talking of Secretary Clinton. Everybody knew it was Mrs. Clinton,” Wazed told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Confirmed By Prime Minister Herself: Back in February, the Prime Minister mentioned the pressure that was being exerted by the State Department in general terms, a local paper reported.

“Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy had to face pressure from the US State Department to keep Muhammad Yunus as the Grameen Bank managing director,” the Dhaka Tribune reported.

“Hillary Clinton phoned me and exerted the same pressure. Even the U.S. State Department summoned my son Joy three times and told him that we would face trouble,” Prime Minister Hasina added.

Former Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, who twice met with then-Secretary of State Clinton, told TheDCNF it was apparent there were links between the World Bank loan cancellation and Yunus. Moni now is chairwoman of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs. RELATED: Dick’s Employee Pens Brutal Resignation Letter Over New Gun Policy “Whether there was any abuse by the U.S. Government or the secretary of state, that I cannot say,” Moni said. “I can only say we saw two facts: One was the communications from the State Department, and then the other one was the withdrawal of World Bank’s loan.”

A History Of Meetings With Donors: Clinton met with Yunus three times as Secretary of State while the Bangladesh government investigation was underway, according to an August 2016 Associated Press report on Clinton Foundation donors.

The Daily Caller contacted both Grameen America and the Clinton Foundation seeking comment, but received responses from neither.



