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Home World UK Minister Quits After Being Named In Probe Against Sheikh Hasina In Bangladesh

UK Minister Quits After Being Named In Probe Against Sheikh Hasina In Bangladesh

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Anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq resigned from the UK authorities Tuesday after being named in graft probes in Bangladesh launched when her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, was ousted because the nation’s chief.

In a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Siddiq repeated she had performed nothing improper however stated persevering with in workplace would seemingly “be a distraction from the work of the federal government”.

Siddiq, 42, has been dogged by claims about her hyperlinks to Hasina, who fled Bangladesh in August after a student-led rebellion in opposition to her decades-long, more and more authoritarian tenure as prime minister.

Hasina, 77, has defied extradition requests to face Bangladeshi fees together with of mass homicide.

On Monday, Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Fee introduced she and relations, together with Siddiq, had been topic to a different graft probe, this time over an alleged land seize of profitable plots in a suburb of the capital Dhaka.

Relations together with Siddiq had already emerged as named targets of the fee’s investigation into accusations of embezzlement of $5 billion related to a Russian-funded nuclear energy plant.

Bangladeshi cash laundering investigators have since ordered the nation’s large banks handy over particulars of transactions regarding Siddiq as a part of the probe.

In her letter of resignation, Siddiq stated her “household connections had been a matter of public file” and that she had acted with “full transparency”.

She insisted her “loyalty is and at all times shall be” to the Labour authorities and the “programme of nationwide renewal and transformation it has embarked upon”.

“I’ve due to this fact determined to resign from my ministerial place.”

Starmer thanked Siddiq for her work and recognised that “no proof of economic improprieties in your half” had been discovered.

“I admire that to finish ongoing distraction from delivering our agenda to alter Britain, you will have made a tough choice and need to be clear that the door stays open for you going ahead,” Starmer added.

Siddiq is an MP for a north London constituency whose ministerial job was a part of the finance ministry and liable for the UK’s monetary companies sector in addition to anti-corruption measures.

Over the weekend, a Sunday Occasions investigation revealed particulars concerning the claims that she spent years residing in a London flat purchased by an offshore firm related to 2 Bangladeshi businessmen.

The flat was finally transferred as a present to a Bangladeshi lawyer with hyperlinks to Hasina, her household and her ousted authorities, based on the newspaper.

It additionally reported Siddiq and her household got or used a number of different London properties purchased by members or associates of the Awami League celebration.

(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)


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