Sir Keir Starmer’s anti-corruption minister has referred herself to the government’s standards watchdog after she was accused of benefiting from her aunt’s deposed authoritarian regime in Bangladesh.
Tulip Siddiq, the City minister responsible for tackling corruption in the financial markets, has submitted herself for an investigation by the government's ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus.She wrote in a letter sent to Sir Magnus: “In recent weeks I have been the subject of media reporting, much of it inaccurate, about my financial affairs and my family’s links to the former government of Bangladesh.“I am clear that I have done nothing wrong.
She is accused of benefiting from the regime after she was given a King’s Cross flat by a political ally of her aunt’s regime worth £700,000.A spokesman for Ms Siddiq had previously said: “Any suggestion that Tulip Siddiq’s ownership of this property, or any other property, is in any way linked to support for the Awami League would be categorically wrong.”She had also been living in a flat worth £650,000, originally given to her sister, by one of their aunt’s advisers.
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