Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Price’s (ACC) inquiry into Labour Minister Tulip Siddiq, also the niece of deposed top minister Sheikh Hasina, has started making headlines in the UK.
Reviews on the inquiry into allegations of Tk80,000 crore embezzlement by Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, also mother of Tulip, and other participants of their households from varied pattern initiatives broke in Bangladesh on 17 December.
Of the amount, Tk59,000 crore has been reportedly embezzled from the Russia-backed Rooppur Nuclear Energy Plant venture.
This morning, The Telegraph ran a epic on the topic headlined “Labour MP faces being caught up in Bangladeshi embezzlement investigation”.
The Day-to-day Mail also ran a epic titled “Keir Starmer’s corruption minister and her family are probed over claims they took £4 billion in bribes for Putin-funded nuclear energy plant”.
The BBC also ran a epic currently with the headline “Minister named in Bangladesh corruption probe.”
Tulip Siddiq, who because the Treasury’s financial secretary, is in mark for tackling corruption in UK financial markets, is supposed to maintain brokered a take care of Russia in 2013 for a contemporary nuclear energy plant in Bangladesh that saw £1bn siphoned off into non-public hands.
This allegation surfaced in the ACC inquiry.
The BBC, alongside other media, approached Tulip for feedback, but the Labour Celebration has up to now declined to touch upon the topic.
The educated is in step with a chain of allegations made by Bobby Hajjaj, a senior political opponent of Hasina, the BBC epic said.
Since fleeing the country, Hasina has been accused of multiple crimes by the contemporary Bangladeshi government.
She is wished by Bangladesh’s Global Criminal Tribunal (ICT) for her alleged involvement in “crimes in opposition to humanity” that took build all the design in which via the demonstrations, wherein a range of were killed.
Syed Faruk, who runs the UK branch of Hasina’s Awami League celebration, educated the BBC that the claims were “fabricated”.
Siddiq used to be elected MP for Hampstead and Highgate in 2015, the north London constituency neighbouring High Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s seat of Holborn and St Pancras.
Court paperwork considered by the BBC show Hajjaj accused Siddiq of mediating and coordinating conferences for the Bangladeshi officers with the Russian government to fabricate the £10bn Rooppur Energy Plant Venture.
It is far alleged that the deal inflated the price of the plant by £1bn, in step with the paperwork – 30% of which used to be allegedly distributed to Siddiq and other relatives by potential of a advanced network of banks and international companies, the BBC experiences.
In total, Hajjaj alleges £3.9bn used to be siphoned out of the venture by Hasina’s family and minister.
An Related Press video displays Tulip attending the deal’s signing by Hasina and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin.
