Colombian mercenaries in Sudan ‘recruited by UK-registered firms’

Zeuz Global was once registered at a block of flats in north London, pictured centre; the firm has since used the postcodes of the Waldorf Hilton hotel, left, and the nearby One Aldwych hotel, in central London, which both say they have no idea why. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian

Close to Tottenham Hotspur’s shiny football stadium in London is a squat, nondescript block of flats. It holds a grim secret beyond the unremarkable beige brickwork – a cramped, second-floor apartment in the British capital, linked to murderous atrocities unfolding 3,000 miles south.

The one-bedroom flat off north London’s Creighton Road is, according to UK government records, tied to a transnational network of companies involved in the mass recruitment of mercenaries to fight in Sudan alongside paramilitaries accused of myriad war crimes and genocide.