{"id":72178,"date":"2025-06-08T13:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/08\/tulip-siddiq-requests-meeting-with-bangladeshi-leader-over-corruption-allegation"},"modified":"2025-06-08T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T04:00:24","slug":"tulip-siddiq-requests-meeting-with-bangladeshi-leader-over-corruption-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72178","title":{"rendered":"Tulip Siddiq requests meeting with Bangladeshi leader over corruption allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-minister wants to clear up \u2018misunderstanding\u2019 over accusation she benefitted from regime of her aunt, ousted Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina<\/p>\n<p>The former City minister Tulip Siddiq has asked to meet Bangladesh\u2019s leader during his London visit to clear up a \u201cmisunderstanding\u201d after corruption allegations made by his administration led her to resign from the UK government.<\/p>\n<p>Siddiq, whose aunt Sheikh Hasina was put on trial in absentia last week over crimes against humanity during her 15 years as prime minister, has been accused of benefitting from the former regime by the authorities in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/08\/tulip-siddiq-requests-meeting-with-bangladeshi-leader-over-corruption-allegation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-minister wants to clear up \u2018misunderstanding\u2019 over accusation she benefitted from regime of her aunt, ousted Bangladeshi PM Sheikh HasinaThe former City minister Tulip Siddiq has asked to meet Bangladesh\u2019s leader during his London visit to clear up &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3457,"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":[327,902,4,2816,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-labour","category-politics","category-sheikh-hasina","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\/72178","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\/3457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72179,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72178\/revisions\/72179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}