Action relates to corruption case over allocation of government land in Dhaka to a private company
A court in Bangladesh has ordered officials to request an Interpol red notice for the British Labour MP Tulip Siddiq over a corruption case linked to the allocation of government land in Dhaka.
Bangladesh’s anti-corruption commission has alleged Siddiq used her relationship with her aunt, the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to influence the allocation of a plot of state-owned land in Dhaka’s Gulshan district to a private company. Siddiq has rejected the claim as baseless and politically motivated.
Siddiq, the MP for Hampstead and Highgate, was convicted in absentia last year when a court in Dhaka found she was complicit in the allocation of state land which British lawyers have since condemned.
She has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in Bangladesh over related corruption convictions, carried out in her absence, and faces a combined six-year sentence across multiple cases involving her aunt and other family members. She has rejected the rulings and allies have condemned the rulings as flawed.
