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Bangladesh’s ex-leader Hasina and niece, British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, found guilty of corruption
- 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 given two-year Bangladesh prison sentence in her absence
LONDON — British MP Tulip Siddiq has been handed a two-year prison sentence in Bangladesh in her absence following a corruption trial she did not attend. Siddiq, a former U.K. minister, was found guilty of influencing her aunt, Bangladesh’s ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to secure a plot of land for her family in the outskirts of the capital Dhaka, according to a BBC report of the trial. Siddiq, a former U.K. Treasury minister, has strongly de…
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In a corruption process in Bangladesh, British MP and former Minister of State Siddiq have been sentenced to two years in prison.
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