Tory donor's cash links to properties in High Court money laundering probe
A millionaire Tory donor who owns London’s famous Conran Shop has been named in new court documents as one of the sources of money used to buy properties that the National Crime Agency alleges were purchased with the proceeds of crime.
Javad Marandi, who also owns the Emilia Wickstead fashion brand and a stake in the Anya Hindmarch handbag retailer, is shown in flow charts submitted to the High Court as making payments to the Azeri MP and businessman Javanshir Feyziyev that were later used in the acquisition of 13 homes in London.
The properties, which are in Colindale and worth several millions of pounds, are among 22 homes in a £50 million London property empire built up by Mr Feyziyev and his wife Parvana now under a High Court freezing order obtained by the NCA.
Law enforcers operation involving the use of shell companies, fake invoices and other false accounting.
