{"id":5369,"date":"2017-09-05T16:08:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T14:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/05\/azerbaijan-hits-back-over-scandalous-money-laundering-claims\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T16:08:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T14:08:50","slug":"azerbaijan-hits-back-over-scandalous-money-laundering-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=5369","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan hits back over &#039;scandalous&#039; money laundering claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baku says Guardian allegations that it made covert payments to politicians and regime\u2019s supporters amount to smear campaignThe government of Azerbaijan has responded angrily to revelations that it ran a secret $2.9bn fund, which was used to pay prominent Europeans, run lobbying operations and launder money via a group of opaque British companies.Azerbaijan\u2019s deputy president, Ali Hasanov, said the stories by the Guardian and other media partners were a smear. In the first official reaction from Baku, Hasanov said the regime was the victim of a \u201cscandalous\u201d campaign organised by British intelligence, the Armenian diaspora and the US. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/sep\/05\/theresa-may-challenged-over-azerbaijani-money-laundering-scheme\" target=\"_blank\">Azerbaijan hits back over &#039;scandalous&#039; money laundering claims<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baku says Guardian allegations that it made covert payments to politicians and regime\u2019s supporters amount to smear campaignThe government of Azerbaijan has responded angrily to revelations that it ran a secret $2.9bn fund, which was used to pay prominent Europeans, run lobbying operations and launder money via a group of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}