Bangladesh points arrest warrant for British MP Tulip Siddiq

Bangladeshi authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the British MP and former Labour minister Tulip Siddiq.

The nation’s Anti-Corruption Fee (ACC) has been investigating allegations Siddiq illegally obtained land as a part of its wider probe of the regime of her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, who was deposed as prime minister in August.

Siddiq has beforehand stated the ACC allegations are “utterly false” and has accused the fee of mounting a “focused and baseless” marketing campaign towards her. The BBC has approached Siddiq for remark.

The Hampstead and Highgate MP, who give up as financial secretary to the Treasury in January, was named within the arrest warrant alongside greater than 50 others.