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Lavish Dhaka flat was Tulip’s permanent address

The Telegraph reports


FE REPORT | February 10, 2025 00:00:00


Tulip Siddiq, former British anti-corruption minister and current Labour Party MP, was included as a resident of a 10-storey luxury building in Dhaka, the fifth property linked with her family in Bangladesh, UK daily The Telegraph reported citing sources.

The "permanent address" of the Labour MP was a lavish apartment complex in Gulshan, named "Siddiques" in 2014, the report said, citing officials at Dhaka without identifying them.

She was a councillor in Camden, north London at that time.

However, sources from the Labour Party said she does not own any properties in Bangladesh, nor she need to answer queries about addresses which does not belong to her, the UK daily said in its report.

Tulip Siddiq, after resigning as UK City Minister a month ago, has still been facing questions about her property and links to her aunt, it reported.

She was forced to resign from the front bench after Sir Laurie Magnus, the prime minister's ethics adviser, found that she had inadvertently misled the public over a flat gifted to her by a man linked to the Awami League party led by Sheikh Hasina.

Bangladesh's Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) was investigating a family holiday home in Kanaiya, including a plot named "Tulip's Territory", The Telegraph can reveal Tulip Siddiq's links to a fifth property in the country, according to the report.

An official document shows the property was considered both her "current" and "permanent" address. The document is dated three weeks after Tulip Siddiq stood down as a Camden councillor in May 2014, it said.

"The 10-storey apartment block in the upmarket Gulshan area of the capital was built in the 2010s and according to a promotional video is home to a roof terrace and two and three-bedroom properties with balconies," the report said.

It is unclear if the building is named after Tulip Siddiq's father Shafique Ahmed Siddique, her grandfather or the family in general, it added.

Citing a person having knowledge of the property, the report said it was built on land owned by a member of the family, but Labour declined to answer questions about whether the family still owned any of the flats in the building or who specifically it was named after.

In addition to the property named after family members, Tulip Siddiq has been linked to another address in Gulshan and her aunt's house in Dhanmondi in court papers.

Tulip Siddiq also previously owned a flat in Dhaka with another family member worth more than £100,000, which was sold in 2015 according to Parliament's Register of Interests.

Labour, responding on behalf of Tulip Siddiq, declined to comment on the property named after her family in Gulshan, according to the report.


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