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Published : 18 Feb 2026, 06:29 PM
A Dhaka court has issued an arrest warrant against British Labour MP Tulip Siddiq in a corruption case over a flat in Gulshan.
Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Sabbir Faiz passed the order on Wednesday after taking cognisance of the charge sheet filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Former RAJUK assistant legal advisor Sardar Mosharraf Hossain is also an suspect in the case.
ACC Prosecutor Mir Ahmed Ali Salam said the court issued the warrants as the suspects are absconding and fixed Mar 8 for submission of the arrest report.
Tulip, a niece of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, was earlier convicted in a separate plot corruption case in Bangladesh.
Allegations were brought against her for exerting influence over her aunt to secure a 10-katha (nearly 31.25 decimal or 13, 610 square feet) plot for her mother Sheikh Rehana in Purbachal. In the verdict, Rehana was sentenced to seven years and Hasina to five years of imprisonment. Other defendants were handed five-year sentences each.
Tulip, who stepped down from her ministerial post following allegations of corruption over the plots and flats in London and Dhaka, has continued to deny these charges.
ACC Assistant Director Monirul Islam lodged the case against Tulip at the agency's Dhaka Integrated District Office on Apr 15 last year.
The case alleges that the British MP "exerted influence" over the transfer of the plot in Gulshan-2 and received a flat there as a "bribe".
According to the case statement, the defendants, through "criminal conspiracy and abuse of power" in collusion with one another, assisted in providing a flat in Gulshan-2 from Eastern Housing to Tulip as a bribe.
She (Tulip) allegedly accepted the flat without making any payment and subsequently "exercised authority" to obtain its records and approval.
Two former assistant legal advisors to RAJUK, Shah Md Khosruzzaman and Sardar Mosharraf Hossain, were also named as defendants in this case.
