Former Labour City minister Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in prison in a corruption case in Bangladesh involving her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, the country’s ousted prime minister.
According to reports by the FT, the corruption case revolved around the allocation of a plot of land. Siddiq was found guilty of influencing Hasina to circumvent eligibility rules and benefit from the allocation of government plots in a project on the outskirts of Dhaka. The former minister resigned in January 2025 due to being investigated as part of the Bangladeshi corruption probe. The verdict was delivered in absentia as neither Siddiq nor her aunt and mother, Sheikh Rehana, were in the country. However, the sentence is unlikely to be enforced because the UK and Bangladesh do n...
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