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British MP Tulip Siddiq has accused Bangladeshi authorities of orchestrating a smear campaign by making “false and vexatious claims” against her in the media without ever reaching out to her directly.

In a statement posted on X on Wednesday, Tulip said, “The Bangladesh authorities have been making false allegations about me to the media for months, but they have never contacted me directly.”

The Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn resigned as a Treasury minister in January after being named in several corruption inquiries in Bangladesh.

Tulip, a niece of Bangladesh’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, said her lawyers wrote to Bangladeshi authorities more than two weeks ago, urging them to stop briefing the media with “baseless allegations.” Her

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