“I have done nothing wrong,” she said in a letter to the authority.Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch on Sunday called for PM Starmer to sack Siddiq. “He appointed his personal friend as anti-corruption minister and she is herself accused of corruption,” Badenoch said. Starmer had said last week he had confidence in Siddiq.Yunus said it was an “irony” that Siddiq had been accused of corruption. She rents this out and she continues to live in a £2.1-million (Rs 22cr) house rented from Abdul Karim Nazim, an executive member of UK Awami League. Asked whether that applied to these properties, Yunus said: “Absolutely, it’s about plain robbery.”Mahfuz Alam, a student activist in Dhaka, alleged that giving property to members of the Hasina family overseas was “a co-ordinated process conducted for 15 years”.

Source: The Times January 13, 2025 05:29 UTC