It says a lot about the nature of UK’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government that the woman he chose to lead the anti-corruption agency, Tulip Siddiq, had to resign in disgrace after news arose that she was under serious investigations for corruption in Bangladesh.
Now, the MP and former Minister Siddiq has become even more embattled as the Bangladeshi authorities issue an arrest warrant for her.
BBC reported:
“The country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has been investigating allegations Siddiq illegally received land as part of its wider probe of the regime of her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, who was deposed as prime minister in August.
The Hampstead and Highgate MP, who quit as economic secretary to the Treasury in January, was named in the arrest warrant alongside more than 50 others.”
The situation can become critical, since the UK does have extradition agreement with Bangladesh.
“The ACC is examining claims Sheikh Hasina and her family embezzled up to £3.9bn from infrastructure spending in Bangladesh.”
Bobby Hajjaj, a political opponent of Hasina, has accused Siddiq of helping in the brokering of a deal with Russia in 2013 to inflate the price of a new nuclear power plant in Bangladesh.
Siddiq’s lawyer Stephenson Harwood:
“To be clear, there is no basis at all for any charges to be made against her, and there is absolutely no truth in any allegation that she received a plot of land in Dhaka through illegal means. She has never had a plot of land in Bangladesh, and she has never influenced any allocation of plots of land to her family members or anyone else.
No evidence has been provided by the ACC to support this or any other allegation made against Siddiq, and it is clear to us that the charges are politically motivated.”
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