You know you're in trouble when the prime minister of your country accuses you of bloodsucking the poor.

Muhammad Yunus, the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank,found himself on the receiving end of a blistering attack from the Bangladeshi prime minister. Sheikh Hasina, who has held the office since 2008, didn't stop there:

The devastating critique was not issued by Mrs. Hasina lightly. It attacks the reputation of a figure who was awarded the Nobel Prize and who has achieved celebrity status on The Simpsonsand acclaim for efforts to alleviate poverty through microfinance--small loans--to the poor in Bangladesh.

The reason behind these attacks is the revelation that Dr. Yunus has not been entirely transparent with his handling of millions of dollars of aid money from Europe.

Mrs. Hasina was responding to journalists' questions about a documentary broadcast in Norway last week which claimed that Yunus had mishandled nearly $100 million of aid money from Norway, Sweden and Germany.