Tulip Siddiq attacks ‘false’ Bangladesh corruption –

Former Labor Minister Tulip Siddiq has accused the Bengalian authorities of mounting a “targeted and unfounded” campaign against her.

In a letter to the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) of Bangladesh, the MP lawyers say that corruption accusations are “false and annoying” and never formally put to her by researchers, even though they are informed of the media.

Siddiq resigned as an economic secretary of the treasury, with responsibility for tackling corruption in the financial markets of the UK, in January.

The Hampstead and Highgate MP insisted that she had done nothing wrong, but that she did not want to be “distraction” for the government.

ACC chairman Mohammad Abdul Moms told the BBC that the accusations “by no means” are oriented and unfounded “and the research was” based on documentary proof of corruption “.

“Mrs. Tulip Siddiq is not allowed to shy away from the legal proceedings in Bangladesh.

“I would welcome Mrs. Siddiq to defend her case and with the best possible legal support that accompanies her,” he added.

He also rejected the claims of her lawyer that the ACC was disturbed in British politics, and added: “ACC -briefing to the media is a regular phenomenon, it is delivered professionally and with all the accuracy.”

Siddiq had referred himself to the ethical adviser of Prime Minister Sir Laurie Magnus when the corruption accusations appeared for the first time in January.

Sir Laurie said in his report that he “had not identified proof of inaccuracies”.

But he added that it was “regrettable” that Siddiq had no longer been alert to the “potential reputation risks” of the ties with her aunt Sheikh Hasina, the deposited prime minister of Bangladesh and leader of Awami League party.

In a letter that accepts her resignation, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, a good friend of Siddiq who represents a neighboring constituency in North Londs, that the “door remains open” for her return.

The ACC investigates claims Sheikh Hasina and her family disappeared to £ 3.9 billion from infrastructure expenditure in Bangladesh.

The investigation is based on a series of allegations by Bobby Hajjaj, a political opponent of Hasina.

Judicial documents that are seen by the BBC show that Hajjaj Siddiq has accused of closing a deal with Russia in 2013 that exaggerated the price of a new nuclear power plant in Bangladesh.

In his letter to the ACC, the lawyers of Siddiq, Stephenson Harwood, repeat her claim that she was in no way involved in the core plant agreement, despite the fact that she was depicted in 2013 during a signing ceremony in the Kremlin, with Sheikh Hasina and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“It is not uncommon for family members to be invited to accompany state heads about state visits,” the letter says, adding that she had no knowledge of alleged financial irregularities.

It says that a £ 700,000 flat in the cross of London King in 2004 had been donated to Siddiq to Siddiq “somehow the fruits of embezzlement” “” absurd “and” cannot be “because it was 10 years before the nuclear deal.

In his investigation into the allegations, Sir Laurie Magnus said that “she was not aware of the origin of her property in Kings Cross for a longer period of time, despite the fact that she had signed a transfer form of the Land Register with regard to the gift at that time”.

She “remained the impression that her parents had bought the building for her,” added Sir Laurie, but had to correct the record when she became a minister.

He describes this as an “unhappy misunderstanding”, which meant that the audience was “unintentionally misled about the identity of the donor of this gift”.

In their letter to the ACC, the Siddiq lawyers confirm that the king’s cross -flat was given to her by Abdul Motalif, which is described as “an Iman and a very good family friend, related to Mrs. Siddiq’s godfather”.

The letter also contains a detailed refutation of accusations of the ACC to the media that Siddiq was involved in the need of land in Dhaka.

It describes ACC letterings to the media as an “unacceptable attempt to disrupt British politics”.

“At any time, there are still some accusations to her, good and transparent, or even not at all by the ACC or someone else with the correct authority on behalf of the Bengal government,” says the letter.

“We require that you immediately stop producing false and worse accusations against Mrs. Siddiq and further media features and public comments that have been designed to harm its reputation.”

The letter says that the ACC questions Siddiq “Immediately” and “at least no later than March 25, 2025” or “We will assume that there are no legitimate questions to answer”.

The ACC says that they have written a response to the lawyers of Siddiq.

In the letter seen by the BBC, a spokesperson for the accelerator -that Siddiq “had spent the majority of her adult life in houses owned by the Notoir Venal Awami League” and that this was proof that she had benefited from the corruption of the party.

The “claim not to have been aware of the nature of the Hasina regime” tense gullibility, the spokesperson added, and the ACC would contact her lawyers in due course “.