Anti-corruption minister refers herself to standards watchdog & faces calls to resign over London flat allegations
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ANTI-CORRUPTION Minister Tulip Siddiq is under investigation for corruption in two different countries. The Treasury Minister has referred herself to the sleaze watchdog amid allegations around properties linked to her family. The Treasury Minister's property affairs will be probed by the ethics czar after it emerged her apartment was a gift to her family from a close ally of her despot aunt’s political party in Bangladesh.
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Sir Keir Starmer insisted today he still had full confidence in his City Minister after mounting calls for an inquiry to be launched. It comes after it emerged last month that she had been interviewed by the Cabinet Office following allegations of embezzlement by relatives.
Siddiq has been quizzed by officials over claims herself and family members embezzled £4 billion through a nuclear plant deal in the country - claims she totally refutes. The Anti-Corruption Commission in Bangladesh is looking into Siddiq and her family after being ordered to by the country's high court.
She was alleged to have been involved in brokering a deal back in 2013 with Russia for the power plant in Bangladesh in which large sums of cash are said to have been embezzled. Siddiq had been due to join the Treasury and Chancellor Rachel Reeves as part of a delegation heading to China this week but will now remain in the UK to assist the inquiry.
