Bangladesh 'failing to provide evidence' against Tulip Siddiq: UK lawyer
The ACC is examining claims Sheikh Hasina and her family embezzled up to £3.9billion from infrastructure spending in Dhaka.
Following the issuance of the arrest warrant for former UK labour minister Tulip Siddiq, her lawyers have accused the ACC of failing to uphold the former labour minister's "fundamental right to justice".
Her legal representatives complained that the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) have "failed to provide a single piece of documentary evidence" against her despite filing a request last month, says The Standard UK.
The ACC is examining claims Sheikh Hasina and her family embezzled up to £3.9billion from infrastructure spending in Dhaka.
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Siddiq is also accused of pressuring her aunt to allocate three plots of land for the MP's UK-based mother and two siblings at the Purbachal residential development.
Prosecutors ordered Siddiq on April 13 to appear before the capital's Senior Special Judges' Court by April 27.
Warrants have also been issued against the former anti-corruption minister's mother, Rehana, 69, her elder brother Radwan, 44, and younger sister, Azmina, 34, for allegedly acquiring plots of land illegally.
Siddiq, who resigned from Keir Starmer's Cabinet in January, and her family vehemently deny the claims.
Despite public statements by the ACC over the case, in a letter seen by The Standard, Siddiq's solicitors Stephenson Harwood said their client has received "no response" from Bangladesh informing her of any criminal charges.
The law firm initially wrote to the ACC on March 18 in which they claimed Siddiq had no case to answer, let alone one that requires her to travel to Bangladesh.
They also accused the ACC of having run an "orchestrated campaign" to harm the reputation of Siddiq by making "false and vexatious allegations", leaking stories to the press, and threatening to issue an Interpol Red Notice.
The letter reads: "It is extraordinary and wholly inconsistent with due process and a fair procedure for the ACC to lay charges before the Bangladeshi court, obtain an arrest warrant, threaten to request a red notice from Interpol and brief the media about all these things without making any contact at all with Siddiq or her lawyers.
