Tulip calls for probe over allegations against her.
UK City Minister Tulip Siddique has called for an investigation into allegations against her. She called for an investigation after allegations surfaced that Tulip lived in multiple flats provided by ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and people associated with the Awami League.
That came out from a report on Monday by The Guardian. According to the report, Tulip wrote to the UK Prime Minister’s Advisor, Laurie Magnus, who is an independent advisor on ministerial standards, seeking an investigation.
Laurie Magnus, as an advisor, looks after the standards required to become a minister. He will investigate if Tulip has violated any rules as a minister.
Tulip wrote that in the last few weeks, she has been under the scanner of media news. Stories have appeared on her financial dealings and her family’s relations with the ex-Awami League government. Most of them are wrong.
She has written, ‘I have not done anything wrong. But to remove all suspicion, I want you to bring the truth independently to the fore over these issues.’
She is the incumbent Economic Secretary to the UK Ministry of Finance. She accepts the challenge to end corruption in the financial sectors of the country. Tulip is the daughter of Sheikh Rehana, sister of Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina in the student-public uprising.
It is to be mentioned that recently, a controversy arose over a number of flats in the UK capital London where Tulip Siddique lives. According to the Financial Times published on Friday, Tulip owns a flat near London’s King’s Cross area.
In 2004, a real estate businessman named Abdul Motalif gifted her the flat for free. He was associated with the ousted Awami League leaders.
Later, another UK-based media, Sunday Times, reported that a lawyer, Moin Ghani, who represented the ousted Awami League government gave Tulip Siddique’s sister another flat in London’s Hampstead area for free.
Tulip once lived in that Hampstead flat. Apart from this, there are reports of Tulip and her family living in a number of flats associated with the Awami League.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is probing into alleged irregularities and corruption amounting to Tk 80,000 crore in 9 projects in Bangladesh, involving Tulip, her aunt Sheikh Hasina, mother Sheikh Rehana, and Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed. The probe began last month.
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