Case filed over Tulip’s flat scandal
- Update Time : 10:22:34 am, Tuesday, 15 April 2025
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Former UK minister Tulip Siddiq has been named in a corruption case filed by Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over an alleged fraudulent land and apartment allocation in Dhaka. The case also implicates former RAJUK assistant legal advisors Shah Khasruzzaman and Sardar Mosharraf Hossain.
According to ACC sources on Tuesday (April 15), the allegations stem from Tulip Siddiq’s alleged influence in facilitating illegal approval for nearly two bighas of land and multiple flat allocations by Eastern Housing Limited through RAJUK, the capital’s development authority.
As per the case statement, in 1964, former East Pakistan Chief Justice Imam Hossain Chowdhury was allocated the land under the condition that it would not be transferred for 99 years. However, by 1974, the property had changed hands and ended up with Eastern Housing’s former chairman, Zahurul Islam. In 2000, allegedly using the influence of her aunt—then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina—Tulip helped secure legal authorization for Eastern Housing to divide the land into 36 flats and to be recognized as the legal possessor. In return, she reportedly received flat no. 201 within the same complex.
Though Zahurul Islam and former RAJUK official Dr. Muhammad Selim were also involved, they have been excluded from the case due to their deaths.
