{"id":74364,"date":"2025-09-21T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/sep\/21\/tulip-siddiq-fears-plans-to-use-fake-documents-to-secure-conviction-in-corruption-trial"},"modified":"2025-09-21T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:00:36","slug":"tulip-siddiq-fears-plans-to-use-fake-documents-to-secure-conviction-in-corruption-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74364","title":{"rendered":"Tulip Siddiq fears plans to use \u2018fake\u2019 documents to secure conviction in corruption trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Ex-minister being tried in absentia in Bangladesh claims ID card and passport tendered as evidence not hers<\/p>\n<p>The former City minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jan\/14\/who-is-tulip-siddiq-niece-of-deposed-bangladeshi-pm-who-quit-treasury-role\">Tulip Siddiq<\/a> has said she fears prosecutors could be planning to use \u201cfake\u201d documents to secure her conviction in her trial in Bangladesh on corruption charges.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour MP, who is being tried in absentia, spoke out after images of a Bangladeshi national identity card and a passport said to be in her name were published in newspapers in the UK and in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/sep\/21\/tulip-siddiq-fears-plans-to-use-fake-documents-to-secure-conviction-in-corruption-trial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Ex-minister being tried in absentia in Bangladesh claims ID card and passport tendered as evidence not hersThe former City minister Tulip Siddiq has said she fears prosecutors could be planning to use \u201cfake\u201d documents to secure her convictio&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74364","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"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74364","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=74364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74365,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74364\/revisions\/74365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}