A Bangladeshi court has issued a travel ban on Tulip Siddiq, the former Treasury minister.

The court also ordered the seizure of a flat in Dhaka previously owned by the Labour MP before she transferred it to her sister.

The court order comes as part of an investigation into alleged corruption involving Sheik Hasina, Ms Siddiq’s aunt and a former prime minister of Bangladesh.

It has been alleged that Ms Hasina and her family misappropriated billions of pounds of state money, something they deny.

Ms Siddiq, who resigned from the UK Government in January amid scrutiny of her links to Ms Hasina, has been named in three Bangladeshi inquiries.

The most serious accuses Ms Hasina and family members including Ms Siddiq of involvement in the embezzlement of £4 billion from a nuclear power plant deal with Russia.