A Tory donor has been charged with funding terror groups, illegal arms dealing, fraud and money-laundering offences in Bangladesh.

Mohammed Shahid Uddin Khan, 55, a former colonel in the Bangladeshi army, is facing jail in his homeland after a raid on his property in the capital, Dhaka, by counterterrorism police in January.

Khan in his army days; he was a colonel

Khan, who lives in Wimbledon, southwest London, with his family after buying a multimillion-pound “golden visa” to the UK in 2009, has donated £20,000 to the constituency party of his MP Stephen Hammond, a health minister.

Documents, lodged in court by Bangladeshi police, allege they found detonators, weapons, radical jihadist literature linked to al-Qaeda and fake Bangladeshi currency in Khan’s home.

Detectives also allege they have uncovered 54 bank accounts held by Khan