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Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain suffered a brand new blow on Tuesday when his anticorruption minister, Tulip Siddiq, give up her publish weeks after being named in an embezzlement investigation in Bangladesh.
Ms. Siddiq, 42, is the niece of Sheikh Hasina, the previous prime minister of Bangladesh, who resigned final yr after 15 years in energy and fled the nation amid a broad student-led protest motion towards her repressive rule.
A junior minister in Mr. Starmer’s authorities, Ms. Siddiq had beforehand referred herself to the prime minister’s ethics adviser for investigation. She has dismissed the allegations towards her as politically motivated and has insisted that she did nothing fallacious.
As financial secretary to the Treasury — a place she was given when the Labour Party got here to energy final July — Ms. Siddiq was accountable for tackling corruption in monetary markets, together with cash laundering and illicit finance.
“I need to guarantee you that I acted and have continued to behave with full transparency and on the recommendation of officers on these issues,” Ms. Siddiq wrote in an official letter of resignation to Mr. Starmer.
“However it’s clear that my persevering with in my position as financial secretary to the Treasury is more likely to be a distraction from the work of the federal government.”
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