Bangladeshi anti-corruption officials give evidence against UK MP Tulip Siddiq

Ms Siddiq, left, is the niece of deposed Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina, right (Mikhail Metzel/Pool/AP)

Bangladeshi anti-corruption officials have given evidence in court against former British anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq, accusing her of using a family connection to deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina to obtain state-owned land in the South Asian country.

Ms Siddiq, who is Ms Hasina’s niece, resigned from her post in Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Government in January following reports that she lived in London properties linked to her aunt and was named in an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh.