The Tory party was today urged to return the hundreds of thousands of pounds donated to it by the business tycoon Javad Marandi as Parliament was told that the “damning” revelations about his links to a money laundering case risked undermining trust in democracy.
Labour MP Margaret Hodge said that the disclosure by this newspaper and the BBC that Mr Marandi was a “person of importance” in case involving a “criminal enterprise” known as the Azerbaijan laundromat moving corrupt funds around the world meant that “if true, dirty money has well and truly crept into our politics.”
