Tulip Siddiq hit with arrest warrant on corruption charges
An arrest warrant has been issued for Tulip Siddiq accusing her of receiving a plot of land illegally from her despot aunt's government.
Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) believes the former City minister received a 7,200 square feet plot in the diplomatic zone of the capital Dhaka through 'abuse of power and influence'.
A spokesman for the ACC confirmed to The Telegraph on Sunday that an arrest warrant had been issued over illegally receiving a plot in the Purbachal New Town Project.
The case is separate from a £4 billion embezzlement investigation by the ACC into a nuclear deal struck by Sheikh Hasina, the ousted Prime Minister, which Ms Siddiq has also been named in.
Ms Siddiq, who resigned from the UK government in January amid scrutiny of her links to Ms Hasina, has been named in three Bangladeshi enquiries. She has denied the charges and accused the Bangladeshi government of a 'targeted and baseless' campaign against her and asked why it had briefed the media but not put its allegations to her directly.
Last month, in a letter, she accused Bangladesh's ACC of an 'unacceptable attempt to interfere with UK politics'.
The ACC petitioned the Bangladeshi courts on March 10, asking for a travel ban to be imposed on Ms Hasina, Ms Siddiq and other family members.
On April 10, the same court had earlier issued arrest warrants against Hasina, her daughter Saima Wazed, and 16 others in another corruption case involving plot allocation.
There is no formal extradition treaty between the UK and Bangladesh.
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