Investigators step up probe into Labour 'anti-corruption' minister Tulip Siddiq's £4billion bribery case
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Labour's ‘anti-corruption’ minister, accused with members of her family of taking billions in bribes, is set to be questioned by investigators in the New Year, The Mail on Sunday has learned. City Minister Tulip Siddiq is being investigated over claims that she and four family members embezzled £4 billion through a nuclear power plant deal in Bangladesh.
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The country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) launched its probe into Ms Siddiq, 42, last week, along with her mother, Sheikh Rehana Siddiq, 69, and aunt, Sheikh Hasina Wazed, 77, Bangladesh’s former prime minister, ousted after 15 years of autocratic rule.
The ACC was ordered to investigate by the country’s High Court, which heard claims that the minister and family members siphoned £4 billion from the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project through fake companies and Malaysian bank accounts into the UK and US.
Last week, after the Daily Mail broke the story, Labour party officials described the allegations as ‘spurious’, and said Ms Siddiq denies the claims, adding that no authority has so far contacted her. But officials at the Commission told the MoS that a team led by five investigators are now gathering ‘documentary evidence’ relating to Ms Siddiq and others, and are likely to write to them within weeks for their responses.
