UK MP sentenced to prison in Bangladesh graft case

Tulip Siddiq and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2013
British MP Tulip Siddiq and her aunt Sheikh Hasina were accused of corruption over a land project. -AP

A Bangladesh court has sentenced British MP and former minister Tulip Siddiq in absentia to two years in jail in a corruption case involving the alleged illegal allocation of a plot of land.

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