British Prime Minister Keir Starmer suffered one other blow on Tuesday when his anti-corruption minister, Tulip Siddique, give up his submit weeks after he was named in an embezzlement probe in Bangladesh.
Ms. Siddiq, 42, is the niece of Sheikh Hasinathe previous prime minister of Bangladesh who resigned final 12 months after 15 years in energy and fled the country amid a widespread scholar protest motion in opposition to her repressive rule.
A junior minister in Mr Starmer’s authorities, Ms Siddique had beforehand approached the prime minister’s ethics adviser for an investigation. She dismissed the allegations in opposition to her as politically motivated and insisted she had accomplished nothing flawed.
As financial secretary to the Treasury – a place she was given when the Labor Occasion got here to energy final July – Ms Siddiq was chargeable for tackling corruption within the monetary markets, together with cash laundering and illicit financing.
“I wish to guarantee you that I’ve acted and proceed to behave with full transparency and on the recommendation of officers in these issues,” Ms Siddique wrote in a proper resignation letter to Mr Starmer.
“Nonetheless, it’s clear that my persevering with in my position as Financial Secretary to the Treasury is prone to be a distraction from the work of presidency.”
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