British city minister Tulip Siddique resigned

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It will be remembered that the English city minister, Tulip Siddiq, was removed from his position after being involved in a scandal related to the deposed Bangladeshi government.

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is the second minister to resign after his close ally and friend came to power last July.

SiddiqShe was under pressure to resign in December from her job as finance minister, which included fighting illicit finance, after being named in a corruption case by the Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission.

Then, according to the Financial Times, Siddique was given a two-bedroom London flat by a developer in 2004. He is associated with the Awami League party. Under the leadership of her aunt, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina.

The Labor MP also lived in a number of other properties linked to the former. Awami League Rule. Siddique handed herself over to Sir Laurie Magnus, the independent adviser to government ministerial standards, last week, saying she had done nothing wrong.

This is a developing story.