Dhaka, Aug. 10 -- "I looked it up myself - there's no extradition treaty," says Tulip Siddiq, the MP for Hampstead and Highgate and former Treasury minister, who resigned in January after a political storm engulfed her.

Just over a week ago, Siddiq, 42, a close ally of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, learned through a journalist who contacted her lawyer that she had been formally indicted in Bangladesh on corruption charges.

She is accused of using her influence as the niece of Sheikh Hasina, the ousted former prime minister of Bangladesh, to secure a plot of land in Purbachal, Dhaka, for her mother, brother, and sister. "It's completely absurd," Siddiq says in her first interview with The Guardian's chief reporter Daniel Boffey on Sunday ...