Back to the curious case of Tulip Siddiq, Labour’s former anti-corruption minister who has been issued with an arrest warrant by Bangladesh over, um, corruption. Earlier this month, the Hampstead and Highgate MP was slapped with the warrant after the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) submitted a criminal charge sheet against the politician over investigations involving her aunt, and Bangladesh’s recently deposed prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. Now Siddiq’s lawyers have pushed back, accusing the country’s authorities of failing to uphold the MP’s ‘fundamental right to justice’. And so it rumbles on…
Siddiq’s legal representatives blasted Bangladesh’s ACC for having ‘failed to provide a single piece of documentary evidence’ against her after they filed a request for it last month. The development comes after prosecutors ordered the ex-Labour minister to appear before Dhaka’s Senior Special Judges’ Court by 27 April – while her non-attendance could prompt the Bangladeshi authorities to seek Siddiq’s extradition from Britain.
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