After months of being questioned about her financial relationships to her uncle Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted last year as Bangladesh’s prime minister, the American minister responsible for financial companies and fighting corruption resigned on Tuesday.
Tulip Siddiq, 42, had constantly refuted accusations of crime, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated last week that he had trust in her.
The departure of a subsequent government secretary in two weeks is a blast to Starmer, whose approval ratings have declined since his Labour Party’s victory in a general election in July. Louise Haigh, the transport secretary, resigned after acknowledging a slight criminal infraction before she entered the government.
After the vote, Siddiq was given the responsibility for overseeing the financial services coverage portfolio, which included oversight of measures to stop money laundering. Siddiq stated in a statement that her place was “likely to be a diversion from the function of the govt.” despite the findings of an investigation into her economic affairs finding she had never violated the ministerial code of conduct. ” I have so decided to resign from my governmental place”, she said. Starmer soon appointed Emma Reynolds, who was a retirement secretary, to Siddiq’s position.
Siddiq was named in December as part of Bangladesh’s investigation into whether her relatives had snagged money from Bangladeshi system jobs. The anti-corruption payment alleged financial abnormalities that cost billions of dollars during the giving of a$ 12.65 billion nuclear energy deal, claiming Hasina and Siddiq does have benefited. Siddiq referred herself to the gov’s separate ethics adviser after further investigation was raised about Hasina and her followers ‘ use of components in the UK.
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