Raymond Saul & Co

Raymond Saul & Co is a law firm registered in the UK.[640] [641]

The firm is linked to several companies registered in the British Virgin Islands that acquired high-value properties in London on behalf of members of the Aliyev family and their business associates.[448] The properties acquired include five apartments in The Knightsbridge, a luxury apartment block in West London, purchased for a total of 18.8 million GBP ($36.8 million);[275] [502] [654] [655] [656] [657] [658] Holborn Links, a commercial real estate asset of 42 buildings spanning 3.3 acres in Central London;[275] [645] and 8 Cavendish Square,[521] [536] the former West London registered offices of the Triangle Group,[642] a real estate investor owned by former Azerbaijani tax ministry officials.[521] [536] The Knightsbridge apartments were acquired by Strahan Holding & Finance Corp.,[0654] [655] [656] Capper Marketing Inc.,[657] and Gesoro Limited.[658] Holborn Links was acquired by Perez International,[281] [282] [283] [284] and 8 Cavendish Square was acquired by Nedo Ventures Ltd.[659] In all of these acquisitions, the purchasing company’s “care of” address on property records was given as Raymond Saul & Co.[654] [655] [656] [657] [658] [281] [282] [283] [284] [659]

When Strahan Holding & Finance Corp. acquired three of the apartments in The Knightsbridge in 2006, it was owned by Arzu Aliyeva.[654] [655] [656] [521] When Capper Marketing Inc. purchased a penthouse in the same development the same year,[657] the company was directed by Fazil Mammadov,[521] [982] [1075] a former Azerbaijani tax ministry official.[520] Shares in the company passed through Aliyev family insiders, then transferred to Arzu Aliyeva,[521] [982] [534] before being transferred to an Aliyev family trust in the Isle of Man.[520] A similar sequence of transfers occurred with 8 Cavendish Square. When it was acquired by Nedo Ventures, the company was controlled by Ashraf Kamilov, an Aliyev family business associate.[521] Ownership was then transferred to Leyla Aliyeva, then to her grandfather Arif Pashayev, then on to an Aliyev family trust on the Isle of Man.[521]