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Bangladesh Orders Banks To Assist UK Minister Graft Probe

Britain's anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq (shown in 2019) is the niece of Bangladesh's ex-PM Sheikh Hasina, whose family is being probed over alleged $5 billion embezzlement (Credit: AFP)

Bangladesh money laundering investigators have ordered the country's big banks to hand over details of transactions relating to British anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq in an ongoing graft probe, officers told AFP.

Siddiq is the niece of former Bangladeshi premier Sheikh Hasina, who fled abroad last August after a student-led uprising against her iron-fisted tenure.

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