Britain’s former anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced in absentia by a Bangladeshi court on corruption charges.
The Special Judge’s Court handed her a two-year term and a fine for her alleged role in a plot in which she helped engineer a land scheme using her family ties and political position.
The BBC reports that Siddiq immediately rejected the ruling, saying it should be “treated with contempt”.
She denied every charge, as well as being a Bangladeshi citizen.