Bangladesh’s opposition leader has said he would push for Tulip Siddiq to be extradited amid corruption allegations linked to her despot aunt’s regime.

Bobby Hajjaj, the founder and chairman of the Nationalist Democratic Movement, said that he would urge Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to ask the former city minister to “come and face law enforcement”.

Ms Siddiq resigned as anti-corruption minister last week after Sir Keir Starmer’s ethics adviser found she had inadvertently misled the public.

The MP is the niece of Sheikh Hasina, the longest-serving prime minister of Bangladesh who is now in India having been ousted last year after 15 years in power.

During her tenure, opponents and critics were picked up, arrested and secretly imprisoned with some subject to extrajudicial killings.

Speaking on Monday, Mr Hajjaj claimed to the Guido Fawkes website that there were cases with “links with Tulip Siddiq herself”, including a multi-billion pound embezzlement investigation into a nuclear power plant deal with Russia.