Tulip Siddiq, a UK city minister and niece of ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, lived in a property given to her family by an ally of her aunt's deposed regime in Bangladesh, reports The Sunday Times.
According to the report published on 4 January, Tulip used the flat on Finchley Road in Hampstead, north London, after it was given to her for free by her teenage sister, Azmina.
The report claimed Moin Ghani, a Bangladeshi lawyer who has represented Hasina's government, handed the property to Azmina in 2009, reports The Business Standard.
The revelation comes following a Financial Times report on 3 January, which claimed that Tulip was gifted an apartment in Central London by Abdul Motalif, a developer and an associate of individuals connected to Hasina, who was removed from power in August last year after uprisings against her rule.
According to previously unreported Land Registry filings, Tulip, current economic secretary to the Treasury, was handed a two-bedroom flat near King's Cross in 2004 without making a payment, the FT report said.
On the Hampstead flat, The Sunday Times report mentions that Land Registry documents state that the transfer of the property to Tulip was "not for money or anything that has a monetary value".
“Azmina was 18 at the time and about to begin her studies at Oxford. It is unclear exactly when Siddiq moved in to the flat, but, upon her appointment in December 2012 as a director of the Working Men's College education institute, she listed the property as her address on Companies House,” the report reads.
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