Dhaka, June 16 -- Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah on Monday questioned the credibility of British MP Tulip Siddiq's claim of innocence, asking why her lawyer sent a letter to the ACC if she had nothing to hide.

"Why did she resign from her ministerial post if she knew nothing? And why did her lawyer write to us?" the ACC chief said in response to a journalist's question during a press briefing in the afternoon.

Tulip, niece of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Labour Party MP for Hampstead and Kilburn in the UK, is currently facing multiple corruption cases in Bangladesh.

"She will be treated as a Bangladeshi citizen, and legal action will be taken accordingly," Abdullah said, adding that ACC's pr...