Hasina Wajid's niece resigned from the post of British minister on corruption charges

Tulip Siddique, the niece of deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid, who fled Bangladesh, has resigned as the British Anti-Corruption Minister over allegations of corruption. Anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddique resigned from the UK government on Tuesday after being named in a corruption probe in Bangladesh. In a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Siddiq reiterated that he had done nothing wrong but that staying in office would likely "distract from the work of government". Siddiq is troubled by claims of links to his aunt Hasina Wajid, whose family has been under investigation for corruption. On Monday, Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission announced that family members including Hasina Wajid and Tulip Siddique are facing another corruption probe into alleged land grabbing of lucrative plots in a suburb of the capital Dhaka. There is blame. Family members, including Tulip Siddique, have already emerged as nominees for the commission's probe into alleged embezzlement of $5 billion linked to a Russian-funded nuclear power plant. Bangladeshi money laundering investigators have since ordered the country's major banks to hand over details of transactions involving Siddique as part of the probe.