The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday again summoned British Labour Party lawmaker and ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 niece Tulip Siddiq in connection with a case accusing her of accepting a luxury apartment at Dhaka鈥檚 Gulshan as an illegal reward.
The summon has asked Tulip to be present at the commission鈥檚 Segun Bagicha headquarters on June 22聽 at 10:00am to face questioning over accepting the Gulshan apartment, commission deputy director for public relations Akhtarul Islam said.
鈥榃e have sent letters to Tulip Siddiq鈥檚 five Dhaka city addresses,鈥� he said.
In the letter sent to Tulip Siddiq鈥檚 addresses, the ACC mentioned that her failure to appear before the ACC on June 22 would lead the commission to believe that she had nothing to say on the matter.
In another move, the commission has appointed an investigation officer to launch an inquiry into the allegations of acquiring illegal wealth by Nasher Rahman, the son of late Saifur Rahman, who was finance minister of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led government.聽
On May 8, in another letter the ACC summoned Tulip Siddiq to appear before it at its headquarters in Dhaka city on May 14 for interrogation.聽
The commission on April 15 filed a case with its Dhaka-1 integrated district office against Tulip and two others for possessing a flat at a project of Eastern Housing Limited at Gulshan.
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 real estate company Eastern Housing Limited without making any payment.
Two former legal officers of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha, Shah Md Khosruzzaman and Sardar Mosharraf Hossain, are also named as accused in the case.
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus during his visit to London lately refused to meet Labour lawmaker Tulip Siddiq to discuss corruption allegations against her, reports BBC online.
Yunus told the BBC that the allegations were a 鈥榗ourt matter鈥�, saying that he had confidence in Bangladesh鈥檚 Anti-Corruption Commission, which was currently investigating Siddiq.