PersonConvicted
Tulip Siddiq
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- Role
- British Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate; Sheikh Hasina’s niece. Resigned in January 2025 as the UK minister for financial services and anti-corruption
- Status
- Sentenced in her absence to two years by a Dhaka special court, 1 December 2025; she says she is a British citizen and does not hold Bangladeshi citizenship
- Flagged for
- Sentenced to two years by a Dhaka special court on 1 December 2025 for corruptly influencing a plot allocation, a conviction she calls politically motivated
Connections (3)
- Tulip Siddiq / Sentenced to two years in, 1 December 2025 / Dhaka plot-allocation corruption case
- She was found guilty of corruptly influencing Hasina to help her mother, Sheikh Rehana, and two siblings acquire a plot. Neither she nor Hasina appointed lawyers, and both dismissed the charges as politically motivated; she had earlier called the allegations a “politically motivated smear”. She disputes that she holds Bangladeshi citizenship.1 Dec 2025 · Al Jazeera · Bangladesh sentences British MP, Sheikh Hasina’s niece, to prison
- Anti-Corruption Commission (Bangladesh) / Prosecuted / Tulip SiddiqAllegation
- Prosecutor Khan Mainul Hasan said his team had her correspondence with Hasina’s principal secretary, Salahuddin Ahmed, and that she “insisted that her aunt Sheikh Hasina allocate plots for her mother and siblings”. She has denied the allegations.1 Dec 2025 · Al Jazeera · Bangladesh sentences British MP, Sheikh Hasina’s niece, to prison
- Tulip Siddiq / Niece of / Sheikh Hasina