US EditionBangladesh’s ex-leader Hasina and niece, British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, found guilty of corruption
Hasina received a five-year sentence and Siddiq two years plus a fine over corruption linked to the Purbachal New Town project, amid accusations of $234 billion embezzlement.
- On Monday, Dhaka's Special Judge's Court sentenced Sheikh Hasina to five years and Tulip Siddiq to two years for corruption involving the Purbachal New Town project, with Siddiq fined 620 Bangladeshi Taka.
- Amid broad post‑regime prosecutions, the ACC filed six cases between January 12 and 14 over alleged irregularities in Purbachal Plot allocations to Sheikh Hasina and relatives, involving six plots in Sector 27, the court observed.
- Tried in absentia, the proceedings saw most of the seventeen accused absent; Siddiq denied wrongdoing, resigned to avoid distraction, and prosecutors treated her as a Bangladeshi citizen despite lawyers' disputes.
- Last week, senior British lawyers including Robert Buckland, Dominic Grieve, and Lady Cherie Blair raised `profound concerns` to Bangladesh's UK envoy, while Sir Laurie Magnus found no `evidence of improprieties` earlier this year.
- With multiple prior convictions, the rulings follow a death sentence two weeks earlier and a 21-year jail term last week, while extradition is unlikely as the United Kingdom has no extradition treaty with Bangladesh and Bangladesh is classified as Category 2B.
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British MP Tulip Siddiq Sentenced to Two Years in Bangladesh Corruption Case
A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced British parliamentarian Tulip Siddiq to two years in prison over a corruption case involving the alleged illegal allocation of a 13,610-square-foot plot of land. The verdict was delivered in absentia, as Siddiq, her aunt and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and Hasina’s sister Sheikh Rehana were not present. Hasina […] The post British MP Tulip Siddiq Sentenced to Two Years in Bangladesh Corruption Case…
Bangladeshi justice sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday to a new five-year prison sentence in a corruption case, and imposed on her niece...
The former head of government was also sentenced to the death penalty last month for ordering the repression of the riots that caused his fall in 2024. She is in exile in India.
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