he should never have been publicly identified. our legal affairs correspondent dominic casciani has been working on this story for over a year. wealthy and well connected. this is javad marandi. awarded an 0be for services to business and philanthropy, he s been a major tory donor with access to senior party leaders. one of mr marandi s british companies is the famous design brand, the conran shop. it s not involved in this case, which raised questions about some of his overseas interests. those questions began when the national crime agency investigated a family living in these opulent apartments in london s regent s park. the family head is javanshir feyziyev, an old associate of mr marandi. he s one of azerbaijan s super rich. and last year, a court ruled the nca could seize more than £5 million from his family. it had been part of billions that disappeared from azerbaijan in a global scandal only uncovered by investigative journalists.
it s not involved in this case, which raised questions about some of his overseas interests. those questions emerged from a national crime agency investigation into the wealth of a family living here, a multi million pound apartment near london s regent s park. the head of the family, javanshir feyziyev, is an old associate of mr marandi and one of azerbaijan s richest oligarchs. last year, a court ruled the nca could seize £5 million from the family s uk bank accounts. it had been part of billions that disappeared from azerbaijan in a global money laundering scandal. and paul radu. the azerbaijani laundromat was only discovered because of the work ofjournalists. i believe the azerbaijani laundromat brought a lot of damage on many levels to azerbaijan itself. to the european union, to the us and other parts of the world. small businesses lost a lot of money because of
The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition has sent a model anti-SLAPP law to the UK Secretary of State for Justice. The model law outlines how best the UK Government can make good on its commitment to reform the law to introduce robust anti-SLAPP measures and protect those holding the powerful to account.