Tulip Siddiq’s mother faces another corruption case in Dhaka, with a court setting 29th October for investigators to report. Sheikh Rehana is accused alongside her sister, deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and former Exim Bank chairman Mohammad Nazrul Islam Mazumder…
The Anti-Corruption Commission alleges 276.34 crore taka, roughly £19 million, was funnelled from the corporate social responsibility budgets of 41 banks into a trust named after Hasina’s father, without approval from the Department of Social Services or the NGO Affairs Bureau. The alleged offences run from 2017 to 2024…
Siddiq, who resigned as anti-corruption minister last year, is not named in this case. Although as Guido has long reported, she has her own problems…
In February a Dhaka court jailed Hasina for ten years and sentenced Siddiq in absentia for four over the Purbachal plot scam, with her mother Rehana getting seven. To this day Siddiq calls it a politically motivated smear…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”