The London Court gave another week to cancel the confidentiality of the names of spouses who were illegally taken from Azerbaijan to the UK $ 20 million (14 million pounds sterling).
According to HaqQin.az, with reference to The Evening Standard, according to the decision taken by the Judge of the High Court of London Friedman, the spouses denied the revision of the decision made a week before the judge of the Westminster Magistrate Court to cancel the confidentiality of their names.
At the same time, the judge gave them to a lawyer to the next court hearing for the oral substantiation of his position. And the next court session will be held no earlier than in a week.
As previously reported, the National Crimination Agency (NCA) is investigating the spouses from Azerbaijan, conventionally named X and Y, accused of illegally export from Azerbaijan to London dirty money for 14 million pounds.
NCA did not reveal the names of the spouses on the basis of the request of their lawyers, but the newspaper The Evening Standard filed a lawsuit with the requirement to reveal the identity of the spouses. And now this claim is under consideration by the court. NCA also joined the requirement of The Evening Standard and called for the disclosure of the respondent names.
Last week, the Judge of the Westminster Magistrate Court of Vanessa Baraitzer satisfied the lawsuit for the newspaper and gave a week to disclose the names X and Y. But now the High Court of London postponed the execution of this decision at least for a week.
Judge Friedman stated that all the arguments of spouses about the cancellation of the decision of the Westminster court are unreasonable, but they have the right to express their position on oral hearings. And before that time, anonymity is protected.
NCA declares that the married couple transported 14 million pounds in the UK, obtained by illegally using complex schemes and a network of numerous offshore companies. Their bank accounts are 6.5 million dollars already arrested. Next month will begin the process of confiscation of this money.
Spouses deny that this money was obtained by a corruption way, and try to challenge the confiscation of money through the court on their bank accounts. According to judicial documents, one of the companies that spouses used to transfer 1.6 million pounds sterling to accounts in London, in June 2014 rented a private aircraft to transport a group of seven young men and five young women to Ibiza Island.