A Labour MP and former minister has been sentenced to two years in prison in Bangladesh over corruption allegations.
Tulip Siddiq, 43, was found guilty of influencing her aunt, Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to secure a plot of land.
Hasina was sentenced to death but fled to India in August 2024 before her arrest.
Siddiq will unlikely serve the jail term she was handed in absentia – not present – in court.
Her aunt, Hasina, and Hasina’s sister, Sheikh Rehana, were sentenced to five years in jail and Rehana to seven.
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An investigation by the Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, did not find ‘evidence of improprieties’.
The report said it was ‘regrettable’ that Siddiq had not been more aware of the ‘potential reputational risks’ of being connected with her aunt.
British lawyers and former ministers expressed concerns over Siddiq’s trial last week, saying the criminal proceedings were ‘artificial and a contrived and unfair way of pursuing a prosecution’.
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