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Paul Peachey

Paul Peachey

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Paul has been based in London for The National since July 2017. He worked as a crime correspondent for a decade, and has been a staffer for newspapers and international news wires covering the UK, Middle East, Asia and Africa. He has worked on TV documentaries and produced radio programmes for the BBC.
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KBR won its battle at the UK's Supreme Court after a tussle with fraud investigators over documents. ( Philip Cheung / The National )
UK fraud investigators lose battle in Unaoil-linked corruption probe

Supreme Court rules US engineering company KBR will not have to hand over documents to Serious Fraud Office

BusinessFebruary 05, 2021
A Belgium armed police vehicle stationed outside the court as verdicts were given in the case of Assadollah Assadi and three others. AFP
Plotters who worked in the name of Iran face decades in jail for failed Paris bomb attack

A spymaster known by the codename Daniel and an apparently normal married couple were part of Iranian secret network in Europe

EuropeFebruary 04, 2021
Assadollah Assadi in Luxembourg City where he handed over the bomb on June 28, 2018. Handout
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Iranian diplomat jailed for 20 years over Paris bomb plot

Assadollah Assadi refused to attend Antwerp court for verdicts over bungled plot

EuropeFebruary 04, 2021
Left: Assadollah Assadi, right: Castle Reichsburg in Cochem, Germany, one of the planned stops on Assadi's European tour. Alamy
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Iranian spymaster tried to cover bomb-plot tracks with family tour of German castles

Assadollah Assadi given maximum 20 years and his accomplices jailed in Belgium

EuropeFebruary 04, 2021
A police officer stands guard outside the court building in Antwerp, Belgium February 4, 2021. REUTERS/Johanna Geron
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EU urged to act against Iran after diplomat jailed in Belgium for bomb plot

European officials focus on spymaster Assadollah Assadi rather than the guiding hand of the foiled attack

EuropeFebruary 04, 2021
Swedish-Iranian national Ahmadreza Djalali, who formerly worked in Stockholm at a medical university, was arrested in Iran in April 2016.
Fears for safety of Swedish-Iranian academic after Paris bomb plot trial

Iran continues to hold European dual citizens such as Ahmadreza Djalali to use as political pawns

EuropeFebruary 04, 2021
Belgian police officers stand guard at the entrance to the Antwerp courthouse in November. Assadollah Assadi refused to leave his prison cell at the start of his criminal trial. AFP
Iranian officials visited diplomat in jail before terrorism trial

Assadollah Assadi faces verdict over alleged Paris bomb plot on Thursday

EuropeFebruary 03, 2021
French officials dismantled a fake fit-to-fly certificate scam at Charles de Gaulle Airport, in Roissy, outside Paris. EPA
Notorious Irish gang behind fit-to-fly Covid-19 certificates scam

Europol warns of surge in criminal activity aimed at evading coronavirus travel restrictions

EuropeFebruary 02, 2021
Left: Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi, right: the gathering of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Villepinte in June 2018. US Embassy Iran/AFP
Accused Iranian diplomat’s European spy operations 'revealed in notebook'

Assadollah Assadi faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted this week of plot to blow up dissidents’ rally in 2018

EuropeFebruary 02, 2021
The fire broke out at a former military barracks. Care4Calais
Fourteen arrested after fire at migrant centre in UK town of Folkestone

Migrant groups have criticised living conditions at the military barracks near England’s southern coast

EuropeFebruary 01, 2021
Nahid Taghavi, a long-standing campaigner for women’s rights, was arrested in Iran in October 2020. Courtesy of family
German woman Nahid Taghavi shrugged off arrest fears before visiting Iran

Latest western dual national to be held by Tehran was arrested in October and questioned at Evin jail

EuropeJanuary 31, 2021
Anoosheh Ashoori with his wife before his arrest in Iran in 2017. He has spent more than three years in Evin jail. Image provided by family
British-Iranian Evin jail inmate Anoosheh Ashoori attempted suicide after IRGC 'mind games'

Family says plight of retired Briton sheds light on the ordeal of dual nationals held by Iran

EuropeJanuary 28, 2021
Arif Naqvi, founder of the Abraaj Group, faces charges in the US of financial wrongdoing related to his company. Bloomberg
Court rules Abraaj chief should be extradited to US on money laundering charge

London magistrate rules against the businessman as he tries to avoid trial on charges of fraud in US

BankingJanuary 28, 2021
An investigator surveys the wreckage of the Paris synagogue attack in 1980. AFP
Canadian academic Hassan Diab to face trial over 1980 Paris synagogue attack

French appeals court rules he should stand trial despite being set free in 2018 for lack of evidence

EuropeJanuary 28, 2021
A vehicle has been set on fire after a large group of young people clashed with police on Beijerlandselaan in Rotterdam, on January 25, 2021. AFP
Third night of rioting in the Netherlands as protesters rampage during Covid lockdown

More than 180 arrested as Prime Minister Mark Rutte condemns ‘criminal violence’

EuropeJanuary 26, 2021
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