UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under renewed pressure to sack City Minister Tulip Siddique. Tulip's family relationship with Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and allegations of corruption have created pressure on the British Prime Minister on Monday.

An investigation has been launched against Tulip Siddique, her aunt Sheikh Hasina and some other family members in a case of financial corruption. The UK minister has been under tremendous pressure since the investigation began in Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasina fled to India on August 5 in the face of student movement.

Earlier this month, Tulip Siddiq asked Care Starmer's ministerial standards adviser to investigate herself after she was accused of living in a London flat allegedly by a close aide of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Regarding the allegations, Tulip Siddiq insisted that she did not do anything wrong.

Asked if Tulip Siddique's position in the UK government was reasonable, senior minister Pat McFadden told Sky News on Monday that she had done the right thing by calling for an investigation against herself. Minister Pat McFadden stressed that Standard Advisor has the power to investigate such allegations.

"That's what he's doing and it's the right way to deal with this crisis," he said. ’’

But opposition politicians in the UK want to dismiss Tulip Siddiq from the ruling government. In an interview with Times Radio on Sunday, Conservative Party spokeswoman Mel Stride said: "I think his role in government is indefensible. ’’

"The position she is in at the moment is inappropriate for Tulip. He is the government's anti-corruption minister. ’’

Tulip and four members of her family are being investigated in Bangladesh for allegedly embezzling $5 billion from a Russian-funded nuclear power plant. Tulip Siddique's name was added to the investigation of the corruption allegations in December last year. As part of the investigation, the investigating officers ordered the country's big banks to submit transaction details of accounts related to Siddique.

Tulip, 42, is in charge of stopping corruption in the UK's financial sector. Tulip Siddiq is a member of Britain's ruling Labour Party, MP and Minister of Finance and Urban Affairs in the government led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The allegation against him is that he brokered a deal with Russia to build a nuclear power plant in Bangladesh in 2013, where the cost of the project was overestimated.

According to a recent report in the UK's influential daily Sunday Times, a two-bedroom flat located in London's King's Cross area was gifted to Tulip Siddiq by a developer named Abdul Motalif in 2004. Motalif is known to be close to Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister and Tulip's aunt Sheikh Hasina.

According to the Times investigation, Abdul Motalif bought the flat in January 2001 with 1 lakh 95 thousand pounds (Tk 2 crore 93 lakh 97 thousand in Bangladeshi currency). He got it quite cheaply, because in August of the same year, another flat next to that flat was sold for 6 lakh 50 thousand pounds (9 crore 79 lakh 97 thousand taka in Bangladeshi currency).

According to the UK's electoral roll data, Tulip lived in the King's Cross flat for a few years after receiving it as a gift in 2004. Then his other siblings stayed for several more years. Tulip currently rents the flat. From there, he is earning 90 thousand pounds (1 crore 35 lakh 68 thousand taka) annually.

Before becoming a candidate in the election, he was involved in the Labor Party as well as the European Union (EU) and UK branch of Awami League's Lobbying Unit and Election Strategy Team. This involvement also played an important role in his election victory.

However, Tulip did not mention about the flat in any election affidavit. In the affidavit, he mentioned flats in Highgate and Hampstead areas of the UK. Abdul Motalif, 70, now lives in east London with a man named Mujibul Islam. Mujibul Islam is the son of a former Awami League MP.

The Financial Times contacted him for more information. Mujibul Islam admitted that he bought the flat in 2001. But he did not provide any other information.

According to London's Land Registry records, Tulip Siddiq became the sole owner of the flat on the third floor in November 2004. And then he had just completed his post-graduation from King's College London and had no income. The flat had no mortgage and no price was mentioned. This proves that the flat was not purchased and handed over to him. The flat scandal has intensified the pressure on Tulip Siddiq to resign in the UK.