Former Labour Minister Tulip Siddiq quizzed over whether she misled Parliament over ownership of £600,000 Bangladesh flat

Former City Minister Tulip Siddiq was past nighttime facing questions astir whether she misled Parliament implicit the ownership of a level successful her autochthonal Bangladesh.

The £600,000 flat successful the superior Dhaka is the taxable of an asset-freezing bid astatine the petition of the country's Anti-Corruption Commission, which is investigating the Labour MP.

Ms Siddiq, 42, who denies immoderate wrongdoing, has told the Mail she received the level arsenic a acquisition from her parents successful 2002 and transferred it 'lawfully and legitimately' to her sister, Azmina, 34, wrong weeks of being elected to Parliament successful May 2015. 

Entries successful Westminster's Register of Members' Interests authorities she co-owned the spot with a household subordinate successful June 2015 and by the pursuing period ownership had been transferred.

But searches made past week by the Mail astatine the Dhaka Sub Registry Office look to amusement that Ms Siddiq inactive owns the flat, arsenic the ACC alleges. A Bangladeshi tribunal volition present determine who owns it.

Last month, the ACC said Ms Siddiq tried to 'transfer' ownership of the level to Azmina successful 2015 utilizing a Heba, an Islamic papers which allows a idiosyncratic to manus implicit an plus to a household subordinate 'out of love'. 

However, experts accidental nether Bangladeshi instrumentality a spot transportation is not considered ineligible until its ownership is changed astatine the Sub Registry Office.

The ACC claimed the Heba was 'fake', arsenic the barrister who authenticated it denied being progressive and alleged that his signature was faked. 

Ms Siddiq's lawyers, however, said the Heba was executed correctly and she declared the level was 'co-owned with a household member' since each rental income went to her sister.

Her representatives person called the ACC allegations 'false and vexatious'.

Last nighttime her lawyer, Paul Thwaite, said a Bangladeshi ineligible adept had told him the Heba papers was capable for a transportation and the Registry records were 'unreliable'. He said it was 'untrue and nonsensical' to suggest Ms Siddiq had misled parliament.

Ms Siddiq resigned arsenic City curate successful January implicit a £700,000 London level fixed to her by a UK-based spot developer linked to her aunt Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted arsenic premier curate of Bangladesh successful August.

She had claimed to the Mail successful 2022 that it had been bought for her by her parents.

An probe by Sir Laurie Magnus recovered Ms Siddiq had inadvertently misled the public.

On X past week, Ms Siddiq described the ACC allegations against her arsenic 'baseless'.

She said: 'Here successful the U.K., we person owed process, the regularisation of instrumentality and a contented of just play. I would happily respond to immoderate morganatic questions, but I volition not beryllium drawn into soiled politics, nor let their witch-hunt to undermine my enactment arsenic a British national and arrogant subordinate of the U.K. Parliament.'