PA mediaLabor MP Tulip Siddiqu’s test on corruption charges has formally started in Bangladesh.
The former ministers did not attend the hearing, where the investigators of the country’s corruption watchmen set a case against him and 20 other persons, including his aunt, his mother, his brother and his sister.
He is accused of impressing her aunt Sheikh Hasina, who was excluded as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh last year, so that she could protect a plot of land in a suburb of capital Dhaka for her family members.
Hempsteted and highgate MPs who deny the allegations, stated that “the so -called test” was made on “a clear” “fabricated allegations and a clear political vengeance”.
Hasina participated in Bangladesh for Bangladesh last August, which was out of a rift by government forces over the protests led by the student, killing hundreds of people.
A copy of the case alleged that when she was a serving MP Ms. Siddiq, she used her aunt and her special power to impress her aunt and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and impressed her. [a plot of land] For her mother Rehana Siddiq, Sister Azmina Siddiq and brother Redwan Siddiq “.
The prosecution said that according to the Bangladeshi law, if a person has a plot or flat in or around Dhaka, they are not allowed to get any plot in the attractive Purbachal project, the prosecutors said.
If found guilty, the maximum punishment will be imprisoned for a lifetime, according to the prosecutors.
Anti -Corruption Commission (ACC), the prosecutor of Tariqul Islam said that Ms. Siddiq was trying as a Bangladeshi citizen as the ACC found Bangladeshi Passport, National ID and Tax Identification Number.
Ms. Siddiq’s lawyers had earlier told The Financial Times: “Tulip had never had a Bangladesh National Identity Card or Voter ID and has not kept a passport since not having a child.”
In a statement on X, Ms. Siddiq said: “In the last one year, allegations against me have been transferred repeatedly, yet I have never been contacted by Bangladeshi officials once.
“I have never received court summons, no official communication, and no evidence.
“If this was a real legal process, the authorities must have joined me or my legal team, responded to our formal correspondence, and presented evidence they claim.
“Instead, they have made false and disgusting allegations aware of the media, but never formally I have been placed by investigators.”
He said: “I have become clear from the beginning that I have not done anything wrong and will respond to any reliable evidence presented to me. To score political points, my name is both baseless and harmful.”
Bangladeshi officials issued an arrest warrant for Ms. Siddiq earlier this year.
The next hearing in the case has been scheduled for August 28.
RootsMs. Siddique Sir resigned as Treasury Minister in Sir Kir Stmper’s government in JanuaryContinuing in his role would be a “distraction”, although he insisted that he had done nothing wrong.
This investigated the allegations against him by Sir Laurie Magnus, Standard Advisor to the Prime Minister.
In his report, Sir Laurie said that he had “not identified evidence of inconsistencies”.
But he said it was “regrettable” that Siddiq was not more alert for “potentially iconic risks” of his relationship with his aunt.
The test in Bangladesh belongs to three allegations, while Ms. Siddiq has to face another charge of allegedly obtaining a flat illegally in the Gulshan region of Dhaka.
The ACC is investigating a separate case against Siddiqu and his family on the £ 3.9BN embezzlement of a Russian-funded nuclear power plant deal with Bangladesh in 2013.
Siddiq has denied any participation in the deal.
The investigation is based on a series of allegations made by Hasina’s political rival Bobby Hazj.
Bangladeshi officials estimate that around $ 234BN (£ 174BN) was distanced away from Bangladesh through corrupt means, while Hasina was in power.
