Paddington Partners Ltd was a business registered in Guernsey run by Robert John Baker, a chartered accountant from Australia and a former KPMG employee,[584] [11] and Thamer Aidi,[11] a London-based investment manager.[15] In 2012, Baker and Aidi signed a letter of engagement to handle all the business interests of the family of Kamaladdin Heydarov, Azerbaijian’s minister of emergency situations.[11]