The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday summoned Tulip Siddiq, a British lawmaker and niece of the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, in connection with a case filed against her on charges of accepting a luxury apartment at Gulshan in Dhaka as an illegal reward.
The commissions issued the summon asking Tulip to be present at the commission鈥檚 Segun Bagicha headquarters on May 14聽 at 10:00am to face interrogation over accepting the Gulshan apartment, ACC deputy director for public relations Akhtarul Islam said.
On April 15, the ACC filed a case with its integrated district office in Dhaka-1 against Tulip Siddiq, and two others for possessing a flat at a project of Eastern Housing Limited in the city鈥檚 Gulshan area.
According to the case statement, Tulip allegedly received the flat located at B/201, House No 11A and 11B (previously, 5A and 5B), Road No 71, Gulshan-2 from the real estate developer company, Eastern Housing Limited, without making any payment.
Two former legal officials of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha, Shah Md Khosruzzaman and Sardar Mosharraf Hossain, are also named as accused in the case.
Thursday was set for questioning ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina at the ACC headquarters over allegations of embezzling Tk 812 crore from development projects at three major airports across the country.
Hasina, who is now staying in India, however, did not appear before the ACC on the day.
The ACC on Thursday filed two cases against a former lawmaker for Noakhali-3 constituency Md Mamunur Rashid Kiron and his wife Jasmin Aktar on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 51 crore and suspicious transactions of Tk 211 crore in his 22 bank accounts.
ACC deputy director Aktarul Islam said that one of the cases was filed against Mamun for amassing illegal assets worth Tk 49.44 crore through corruption and abusing power.
Another case was filed against Mamun and his wife Jasmin as the latter allegedly amassed illegal wealth worth Tk 1.83 crore with the help of Mamun.
