Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, 51, who runs the UK’s biggest sharia courts network, is accused of
raping two Dutch girls in the 1980s and 1990s, according to police.
West Midlands Police are investigating the claims, both of which the Muslim cleric has denied.
When the claims first appeared in De Telegraaf, a Dutch newspaper, Siddiqi branded then
‘unfounded’.
The two women claim they were sexually abused by Siddiqi from the ages of 11 and 12 until they
were 16.
Siddiqi established the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT), Britain’s largest
sharia court legally operating in the UK under the 1996 Arbitration Act.
A West Midlands Police spokesman said: ‘A 51-year-old man from Nuneaton
has been voluntarily interviewed in relation to allegations of historical rape
cases. Inquiries remain ongoing.’
