The National Crime Agency has taken the first step in Britain in a corruption case embroiling ex-city minister Tulip Siddiq, by freezing any future sale of her mother鈥檚 home, reports The Mail.
The agency 鈥� hailed as Britain鈥檚 FBI 鈥� last night confirmed obtaining an asset-freezing order on the luxury property in Golders Green, North London, which has been the Tulip clan鈥檚 main home for 14 years.
Hampstead Labour MP Tulip鈥檚 mother Sheikh Rehana, has been living there since it was bought in 2011 for 拢1.2 million.
The home, registered in the Isle of Man tax haven, was bought by millionaire Ahmed Shayan Rahman, 42.
He was a chairman of the British Asian Trust, a charity founded by King Charles. Last night the trust said he has stood down over the NCA probe.
Rahman鈥檚 father Salman, 74, was a minister for prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the aunt of Tulip, 42, who was ousted from power last year after weeks of violent protests.
The freezing order is part of the NCA鈥檚 investigation into suspected corruption and money-laundering.
Bangladesh is probing claims Tulip and family members siphoned nearly 拢4 billion from a nuclear plant deal with a Russian company. Tulip denies any wrongdoing.
She quit as City minister in January after a standards investigation into properties she owned or lived in which were given to her family by her aunt鈥檚 allies in Bangladesh.
Tulip did not comment and Rahman could not be reached.
