Former minister Tulip Siddiq said there is “no evidence” she has done anything wrong after Bangladesh issued a warrant for her arrest.

Ms Siddiq told reporters outside her home that she is the “victim of a politically motivated smear campaign”.

Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) sought the warrant over allegations Ms Siddiq received a 7,200sq ft plot of land in the country’s capital, Dhaka.

Ms Siddiq’s lawyers on Sunday told Sky News the allegations are “completely false”, adding there was “no basis at all for any charges to be made against her”.

On Monday, Ms Siddiq said no one from the Bangladeshi authorities has contacted her and said she was facing a “trial by media”.

“I can’t dignify this politically motivated smear campaign with any comment,” she said, alleging authorities are “trying to harass me”.

There is “no evidence I’ve done anything wrong”, she added.

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Ms Siddiq is the niece of Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was deposed last summer following an uprising against her 20-year leadership,

The Labour MP resigned as a Treasury minister earlier this year following an investigation by the prime minister’s ethics adviser into her links to her aunt’s regime, which is facing corruption allegations.

Ms Siddiq was not found to have breached the ministerial code. However the prime minister’s ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus said it was “regrettable” she was not more “alert to the potential reputational risks” arising from her close family’s association with Bangladesh.

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