subject: Emails, Wire Transfers, Chats and more found on former Al Fajer Properties CEO's Hard Drive [print this page] Emails, Wire Transfers, Chats and more found on former Al Fajer Properties CEO's Hard Drive
Shahram Abdullah Zadeh was detained in September after UAE authorities found him aboard a civilian flight from Dubai to Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgzstan. Now, officials say they seized the Iranian businessman's hard drive; finding incriminating emails, wire transfers, chats and more from members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Leigh Jones, Moses Oye, and Imran Karim.
Zadeh was dismissed from Al Fajer Properties in late 2008 after investigations into the company's cash-flow situation traced several cases of fraud back to the former CEO.
While investigators struggled to put the pieces of Shahram Zadeh's puzzle together, the slick businessman was busy fleeing the country, marrying a woman from the Czech Republic (CR), obtaining a new Czech passport and spreading his story to western media outlets. Oddly enough, during the same time of the investigation, Leigh Jones abruptly quit her position as the company's secretary and moved home to London; raising concern for many of Al Fajer's investigator's.
Though state media has been reluctant to return our calls, sources close to the case told the Telegraph that authorities have retrieved copies of wire transfers into several different accounts, one being a $1.9 million transfer to Leigh Jones and another $200,000 transfer to international investor, Moses Oye. The source added that many of the retrieved emails indicated that Jones and Oye had received compensation for a "job well done."
Calls and emails to Leigh Jones were not returned to the Telegraph at the time of this writing. Sources indicate that Jones has changed her story about the Al Fajer Properties incident several times. The source also added that in one version of her story, the former secretary stated that she had not been contacted by Zadeh since his dismissal in 2008.
