Overview

• The trial at Dhaka Special Judge Court-4 opened on August 11 with Anti-Corruption Commission officials reading witness statements in multiple Purbachal plot cases.
• Prosecutors say they hold correspondence and documents showing Siddiq’s influence over her aunt to secure a 7,200 sq ft diplomatic-zone plot for her family.
• Siddiq and three relatives are being tried in absentia after a court issued an arrest warrant in April and the ACC designated them as fugitives.
• The British MP, who stepped down as the UK’s anti-corruption minister in January, has denied wrongdoing and called the proceedings a political farce.
• Prosecutors have signalled intentions to seek international arrest measures, including Interpol notices, if the defendants are convicted.