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To ask a few questions about where mr zahawi's wealth comes from. he has been a very successful person, by all accounts, has a lot of money, so people have naturally ta ken some public interest examinations of that money, but that was simon and i wrote about the hmrc investigation for the first time. so that was the first we heard about it. that piqued your interest, dan neidle, and you started looking up, looking at it. how much pickup at that time was there in the wider press about the story, dan? so, my initial findings, let's call it a tax anomaly, it looked to me like a naive attempt at t...

Finds out yet they did bad tax stuff, that is going to cost you, the buyer, money. so entirely selfish capitalism incentives drive companies acquiring other companies and the tax lawyers working for them to try and uncover tax problems, so for me to do that on zahawi's companies was not really any different from what i had been doing for many years as a tax lawyer. and this was last summer and you mentioned the independent and i should bring in anna isaac, who is now at the guardian. but talk to me about when you got involved in this story, because you were at the independent at that point? th...

Is working for them to try and uncover tax problems. so, for me to do that on zahawi's companies was not really any different from what i've been doing for many years as a tax lawyer. 0k. and this was last summer, and you mentioned the independent, and i should bring in anna isaac here who is at the guardian now, but just talk to me about when you got involved in the story, because obviously you were back you were in the independent at that point. yeah, that's right. in earlyjuly last year, i worked with simon walters, who's been a long standing lobby reporter who was working freelance for the...

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