Overview
- Senior Special Judge Mohammed Sabbir Faiz granted the Anti-Corruption Commission’s petition directing a request to Interpol to facilitate Tulip Siddiq’s arrest.
- The commission alleges Siddiq leveraged her ties to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to influence the award of government land to a private company in Dhaka’s Gulshan area.
- ACC Assistant Director A.K.M. Mortuza Ali Sagar applied for the red notice, and there was no immediate response from Siddiq to the latest order.
- Siddiq has been sentenced in absentia to a total of six years in three corruption cases in Bangladesh; she denies wrongdoing and has called the verdicts “flawed” and “farcical.”
- A red notice is a request to locate and provisionally arrest a person for extradition rather than an automatic arrest warrant, and any action depends on national authorities.