"The ACC has not responded to Ms Siddiq"
Bangladeshi anti-corruption authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Labour MP Tulip Siddiq over alleged land fraud.
The country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) claims Ms Siddiq received a 7,200sq ft plot of land in Dhaka through improper means.
Ms Siddiq’s lawyers denied the claims.
They said: “The allegations are completely false and have been dealt with in writing by Ms Siddiq’s lawyers.
“The ACC has not responded to Ms Siddiq or put any allegations to her directly or through her lawyers.
“Ms Siddiq knows nothing about a hearing in Dhaka relating to her and she has no knowledge of any arrest warrant that is said to have been issued.”
The MP resigned as a Treasury minister earlier in 2025 after an investigation by the prime minister’s ethics adviser into her links to her aunt, Sheikh Hasina.
Ms Hasina, Bangladesh’s former prime minister, was ousted from power in 2024 and fled the country in August after weeks of protests.
She is accused of becoming increasingly autocratic, with politically-motivated arrests and human rights abuses under her government.
Ms Hasina denies all wrongdoing, calling it a political witch hunt.
In her resignation letter, Tulip Siddiq denied the allegations but stated that remaining in her role would likely be “a distraction from the work of the government”.
Tulip Siddiq’s lawyers said: “To be clear, there is no basis at all for any charges to be made against her, and there is absolutely no truth in any allegation that she received a plot of land in Dhaka through illegal means.
“She has never had a plot of land in Bangladesh, and she has never influenced any allocation of plots of land to her family members or anyone else.”
It was previously reported that Bangladesh’s interim leader had claimed Ms Siddiq had “wealth left behind” in the country “and should be made responsible”.
In her first comments since leaving government, Ms Siddiq said:
“There’s been allegations for months on end and no one has contacted me.”
Her legal team previously described the accusations as “false and vexatious”.
They added: “No evidence has been provided by the ACC to support this or any other allegation made against Ms Siddiq, and it is clear to us that the charges are politically motivated.”
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