{"id":68448,"date":"2024-12-23T19:56:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2024\/dec\/23\/tulip-siddiq-questioned-embezzlement-allegations-treasury-bangladesh-russia-deal-nuclear-plant"},"modified":"2024-12-23T19:56:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:56:19","slug":"tulip-siddiq-questioned-over-multibillion-pound-embezzlement-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68448","title":{"rendered":"Tulip Siddiq questioned over multibillion-pound embezzlement allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury minister denies claims by Bangladesh that she helped broker corrupt deal with Russia to build nuclear plant<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has been questioned by the Cabinet Office\u2019s propriety and ethics team after Bangladesh\u2019s anti-corruption commission accused her and family members of embezzling billions for a nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour MP, who denies allegations that she helped broker a deal with Russia to build the energy project, reportedly told a government official that she was the victim of a \u201cpolitical hit job\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2024\/dec\/23\/tulip-siddiq-questioned-embezzlement-allegations-treasury-bangladesh-russia-deal-nuclear-plant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury minister denies claims by Bangladesh that she helped broker corrupt deal with Russia to build nuclear plantThe Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has been questioned by the Cabinet Office\u2019s propriety and ethics team after Bangladesh\u2019s anti-corrupt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4536,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,6,657,3206,221,59,232,902,570,4,419,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-business","category-energy-industry","category-ethics","category-europe","category-global-development","category-governance","category-labour","category-nuclear-power","category-politics","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68449,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68448\/revisions\/68449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}