Tulip Siddique has been given a London flat by a developer linked to the ousted Bangladeshi government.

UK Cities Minister Tulip Siddiq has been given a central London flat by a man linked to the recently ousted Bangladeshi ruling party.

SiddiqPreviously unreported Land Registry records reveal that the Economic Secretary to the Treasury was given a two-bedroom flat near King’s Cross without payment in 2004.

The donor, Abdul Motalif, was a developer and associate of Siddique’s aunt, who was a developer and associate of the ousted former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, who headed the Awami League party. The files indicate.

The King’s Cross property, which Siddiq still owns, was bought in January 2001 for £195,000, records show. An adjoining flat in the building sold for £650,000 in August.

“The idea that Tulip Siddique’s ownership of this property or any other property is in any way connected with the support of the Awami League is completely wrong,” said the minister’s spokesperson.

Motalif confirmed the purchase of the King’s Cross property to the Financial Times in a phone call but declined to comment on what he did with it.

A person familiar with the matter said: “Tulip’s parents transferred the foreclosed property to Tulip to thank them for their support following financial support for an acquaintance during a difficult time in his life.” .

The details of the gift raise new questions about Siddique’s self-abdication of corruption. Named in the investigation Last month, the Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission.

The Bangladeshi investigation denied that Sheikh Hasina’s political rival had accused her family, including Siddique, of being cut out of the Russian-backed nuclear power project.

Members of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League were also accused Transfer money To buy properties in UK, US, UAE and Singapore from Bangladesh banking system. They denied the allegations.

Siddiqui holds a brief which includes responsibility for measures taken in the British government to control money laundering and illicit financing.

Electoral records show Siddiq lived in the King’s Cross flat in the early 2000s and her siblings lived in the property for many years. Siddiq declared rental income from two flats in her parliamentary statement of financial need.

Motaliff, now 70, lives in south-east London. Companies House records show he is now registered as the owner of a defunct small property services company.

Election details show that it has approved lawyer Moin Ghani, who continues to represent the Awami League-led government. A photo was taken With Sheikh Hasina, to live in the King’s Cross apartment before being given to Siddiq. Ghani did not respond to a request for comment.

According to the data, Motalif shared a residential address in South East London between 2014 and 2024 with Mojibul Islam, son of former Awami League MP.

Both Motalif and Islam confirmed they were registered at addresses in South East London.

According to Land Registry records, the gift of the King’s Cross property was made before Siddique became an MP, meaning she was not required to disclose it.

The papers were published in In 2018, they revealed that Siddique extended the lease on the King’s Cross property by £90,000. She bought a flat with her husband in her choice of London, Hampstead and Highgate, for £865,000.

The land registry documents now indicate that there is no mortgage on either apartment.

Five years after Siddique bought her constituency with her husband, “they only paid off the remaining mortgage with the couple’s money,” said a person familiar with the matter.

Last year, Siddiq was reprimanded by a parliamentary-level commissioner for failing to declare the rental income of a constituency apartment.

Before becoming an MP in 2015, Siddiq worked as a consultant for several charities and for Philip Gould Associates, the late Labor peer and strategist.

Mohammad Yunus, the head of Bangladesh’s interim government that took power in August. He described Awami League as “fascist”.. Rival parties and human rights organizations have accused them of election fraud, extrajudicial killings and the seizure of state institutions.

Sheikh Hasina last month denied ordering security forces to use lethal force against protesters and called the allegations against her “false propaganda”.

Downing Street said last month that UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer had “confidence” in Siddique, who said she had “no involvement” in allegations about the Russian-backed nuclear power plant.

British government officials said they saw no evidence of any wrongdoing by Siddiq.

Siddique has been a member of the Labor Party since she was 16, but has also worked for some time in the Awami League’s EU and UK “lobbying unit and electoral strategy team”, according to the Labor organisation. Blog post It has since been deleted.

They have UK-based Awami League affiliates They campaigned side by side with Siddiq. In several British general elections, including last year’s vote that brought Labor to power, people familiar with the matter said.

“Had it not been for your help, I would never have been able to stand here as a British MP,” Siddiq said in 2015.

Since 2022, Siddique has rented a £2.1mn London house owned by Abdul Karim, the executive director of the UK wing of the Awami League. She moved into the property outside her constituency after buying it in July 2022, records show.

Siddiqui’s partner said she was paying “market rates” and that the relationship between her and Karim was actually disclosed to parliamentary officials.