Arrest warrant issued for Labour MP Tulip Siddiq on corruption charges

Tulip Siddiq says ‘there is absolutely no truth’ in the corrption allegations (Picture: Peter MacDiarmid/REX/Shutterstock)

An arrest warrant has been issued for Labour MP Tulip Siddiq on corruption charges in Bangladesh three months after resigning as an anti-corruption minister.

The Hampstead and Highgate MP is accused of illegally receiving a 7,200 square foot plot of land in the country’s capital, Dhaka, from her aunt’s government before it was overthrown.

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