Bangladesh issues 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 country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has been investigating allegations Siddiq illegally received land as part of its wider probe of the regime of her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, who was deposed as prime minister in August.

Siddiq has previously said the ACC allegations are “completely false” and has accused the commission of mounting a “targeted and baseless” campaign against her. The BBC has approached Siddiq for comment.

The Hampstead and Highgate MP, who quit as economic secretary to the Treasury in January, was named in the arrest warrant alongside more than 50 others.