LABOUR MP TULIP SIDDIQ WHO IS FACING A CORRUPTION PROBE ‘LIED ABOUT HAVING A PASSPORT FROM BANGLADESH’

Former Labour anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq held a Bangladeshi passport and national identity card, new evidence suggests, contradicting her previous claims.Officials in the capital Dhaka have uncovered records of a passport issued to her when she was 19 and a national identity card from January 2011.
She also has a Bangladeshi voter registration number allowing her to participate in elections in the country, the Election Commission database appears to show. 
Bangladesh's passport database also seems to show that Ms Siddiq applied to renew her passport in 2011 at the Agargaon office in Dhaka.
Ms Siddiq, now 43, who was born in Britain to two Bangladeshi parents, is entitled to hold dual citizenship but in 2017 she said she was British and that 'I am not Bangladeshi'.
The Labour MP was forced to resign in January after the Daily Mail revealed she was facing a major corruption probe in Bangladesh. She denies any wrongdoing.
Ms Siddiq; her mother, Rehana; and two UK-based siblings are facing charges in the country over illegally acquiring land in an exclusive residential area of Dhaka. She has denied the charges.
Mohammed Abdul Momen, head of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), which is prosecuting Ms Siddiq, said that a Bangladeshi passport and national ID card issued to her are genuine.
A spokesman for Ms Siddiq said: The Bangladeshi authorities have pursued a politically motivated smear campaign against her without producing a shred of credible evidence.
'They are now circulating fabricated documents in a desperate attempt to justify their so-called trial. 
'Ms Siddiq has never held a Bangladeshi national identity card or voter ID, and has not held a passport since childhood. 
'This is a deliberate and desperate attempt to undermine her credibility and reputation.
'She has been clear that she has done nothing wrong.'