Corruption minister Tulip Sadiq under investigation in Bangladesh amid claims her and family took billions from Russian nuclear plant 'she helped to broker'
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A senior Labour minister is being investigated over claims that she and members of her family have taken bribes of up to £4billion in a nuclear power plant deal. City Minister Tulip Siddiq – whose job role sees her responsible for clamping out corruption in Britain’s financial sector – is being investigated for the staggering embezzlement in her native Bangladesh.
![[Russian President Vladimir Putin, third right, and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, third left, tulip siddiq MP (left) attend a signing ceremony in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/21/93292787-0-image-a-43_1734557608232.jpg)
The country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) launched a probe into Ms Siddiq, her UK-based mother Sheikh Rehana Siddiq, and her aunt, Sheikh Hasina Wazed - the ousted former prime minister of Bangladesh who ruled the country with an iron fist for over 15 years.
![[Chancellor Rachel Reeves and the Economic Secretary to the Treasury Tulip Siddiq meet senior bank leaders to discuss investment in the UK ahead of the International Investment Summit on 14 October]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/21/93292813-0-image-a-42_1734557591173.jpg)
Hasina fled Bangladesh to India in August with Rehana at her side after weeks of violent protests in which security forces killed hundreds of innocent civilians. The investigation was launched after an order from the country’s High Court, which heard claims that Ms Siddiq may have helped to ‘broker’ the nuclear deal, worth £10billion in total.
![[Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a ceremony marking the delivery of Russian nuclear fuel to the first power unit of the Rooppur NPP in Bangladesh]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/21/93292867-0-image-a-44_1734558073700.jpg)
The power plant was built by a Russian state-backed company called Rosatom, and the deal was signed inside the Kremlin back in 2013 by Hasina and Putin in the presence of Ms Siddiq, who at the time was a Labour councillor. The ACC is also probing other members of Ms Siddiq’s family, including her maternal cousin, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, who lives in the US, and her paternal uncle Tariq Siddiq, who is believed to be hiding in Bangladesh.
![[Ms Siddiq refused to help or even mention the cases of British residents whose Bangladeshi relatives were imprisoned and tortured in her aunt’s prisons]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/21/93293051-0-image-a-45_1734558125761.jpg)
