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Tory donor's cash links to properties in High Court money laundering probe
Evening Standard
|March 19, 2024
A MILLIONAIRE Tory donor who owns the Conran Shop has been named as one of the sources of money used to buy properties that were allegedly purchased with the proceeds of crime.
Javad Marandi, who also owns the Emilia Wickstead fashion brand and has a stake in the Anya Hindmarch handbag retailer, is shown in charts submitted to the High Court as making payments to the Azeri businessman and MP Javanshir Feyziyev that were used in the buying of 13 homes in London.
The properties — in Colindale — are among 22 homes in a £50 million London property empire built by Mr Feyziyev and his wife Parvana, now under a High Court freezing order. It is alleged that the properties were bought using funds moved into Britain via a money laundering operation.
This story is from the March 19, 2024 edition of Evening Standard.
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