:00:07. > :00:14.A British citizen is kidnapped in Dubai, believed to be dead. The
:00:15. > :00:19.suspects? Intelligence agents from Iran. Now his wife, in her first
:00:20. > :00:26.television interview, said British authorities are also responsible. I
:00:27. > :00:31.do blame the UK Government. They put many other people's life in danger.
:00:32. > :00:38.Why did the British Government and over his private documents to
:00:39. > :00:46.hardline regime in Iran? He was afraid of being killed. He said that
:00:47. > :00:50.to you? Yes. Tonight on Panorama, a secret deal that raises serious
:00:51. > :00:55.questions that go right to the heart of our Government. Someone somewhere
:00:56. > :01:00.should be saying to us I made this decision because... There should be
:01:01. > :01:05.some kind of accountability. I think this is sufficiently serious for the
:01:06. > :01:17.Home Secretary to direct her personal attention to it.
:01:18. > :01:27.Dubai, a glittering Middle Eastern hub for business and tourism. It is
:01:28. > :01:32.the playground of the rich and famous but there is another side to
:01:33. > :01:36.this place. One evening last June, a businessman leaves his office to go
:01:37. > :01:44.home. Abbas Yazdi is a British citizen born in Iran. In the car
:01:45. > :01:48.park, people are waiting. He is bundled into his own car and then
:01:49. > :01:56.driven to a nearby port and put on a boat to Iran. For eight months, his
:01:57. > :02:04.wife has been trying to find out what happened to her husband.
:02:05. > :02:07.Everything is so dark and scary. My husband was abducted. I don't know
:02:08. > :02:15.what happened to him. I didn't know what was going on. Atena Yazdi wants
:02:16. > :02:20.to know why the British Serious Fraud Office passed her husband's
:02:21. > :02:25.private business records to the Iranian state. This is unbelievable
:02:26. > :02:28.because Abbas warned them that they were putting his life in danger by
:02:29. > :02:36.passing all this information to Iran. She has been told by the
:02:37. > :02:42.British Foreign Office they believe her husband is dead. But no one
:02:43. > :02:47.knows for sure. It is not only me. It is the kids also. I can't tell
:02:48. > :02:55.them if Abbas is, you know, alive. I can't tell them he is dead because I
:02:56. > :02:59.don't believe it. After he disappeared, Mr Yazdi's family were
:03:00. > :03:04.given police protection in Britain, but now they are back in Dubai. Arad
:03:05. > :03:09.and Ayla are trying to adjust to life without their father. Every
:03:10. > :03:13.Friday and Saturday he would take us to the movies. We miss him. I know.
:03:14. > :03:27.It is hard. Last month, three Iranians were
:03:28. > :03:34.arrested in Dubai in connection with Mr Yazdi's abduction. A former
:03:35. > :03:38.Director of Public Prosecutions had previously warned the Serious Fraud
:03:39. > :03:42.Office helping Iran could put lives at risk. The Iranian state is known
:03:43. > :03:48.for its complete contempt of the rule of law, for engaging in routine
:03:49. > :03:54.acts of torture, arbitrary executions, and an utter disregard
:03:55. > :03:57.for human rights. It seems extraordinary that a British
:03:58. > :04:01.prosecuting authority should be cooperating with an Iranian law
:04:02. > :04:04.enforcement authority in any way, but particularly in connection with
:04:05. > :04:12.a British citizen and doing that behind his back. Abbas Yazdi grew up
:04:13. > :04:19.during a run's Islamic resolution, which brought the ayatollahs to
:04:20. > :04:22.power. -- Iran's revolution. He went to school with influential family
:04:23. > :04:31.members, including the son of this man, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, who
:04:32. > :04:37.became President and an important political player. Mehdi Rafsanjani
:04:38. > :04:42.would become a politician and businessman and Abbas Yazdi was his
:04:43. > :04:48.friend. They used to be classmates and they were very close to each
:04:49. > :04:52.other. Aged 24, Abbas Yazdi was imprisoned. His family say he was a
:04:53. > :04:56.victim of political infighting in Iran between more moderate
:04:57. > :05:02.reformists like his friend's father President Rafsanjani and the
:05:03. > :05:08.hardliners. Why was in prison? He was a close friend to Mehdi
:05:09. > :05:13.Rafsanjani and every time they wanted to put pressure on him and
:05:14. > :05:19.his family, it was Abbas being the hostage, always like a hostage.
:05:20. > :05:22.Abbas Yazdi was in solitary confinement for six months, tortured
:05:23. > :05:29.and made to confess to false charges. One of the things they said
:05:30. > :05:39.to him when he had to confess was to aspiring for the UK. They gave him
:05:40. > :05:45.the death penalty. -- spying for the UK. Some of Mr Yazdi's influential
:05:46. > :05:51.friends in Iran got him temporary leave from prison and he fled abroad
:05:52. > :05:55.like many others. The conflict between the moderates and the
:05:56. > :05:58.hardliners has often spilled out and involved retribution and punitive
:05:59. > :06:03.measures taken by one camp against another at various points. I think
:06:04. > :06:08.it has gone well beyond the judicial system. The Yazdis came to London in
:06:09. > :06:14.the 90s and made their home in wealthy Knightsbridge. They had
:06:15. > :06:21.their children here, and Abbas Yazdi established a business consultancy.
:06:22. > :06:25.He set up his business and everything necessary to start a new
:06:26. > :06:33.life in a new country. But it wasn't easy. It was very difficult. In
:06:34. > :06:37.2003, the Serious Fraud Office came calling. They raided Abbas Yazdi's
:06:38. > :06:43.office, took away copies of confidential material from his
:06:44. > :06:46.computers. It was at the request of the Norwegian authorities. They were
:06:47. > :06:54.interested in Mr Yazdi's business dealings in Iran. I think the best
:06:55. > :06:59.way to describe him would be as a fixer. And there is no doubt that at
:07:00. > :07:02.some time in the past, 2003, the Norwegian prosecuting authorities
:07:03. > :07:08.had taken an interest in a company with which he was associated. In no
:07:09. > :07:13.way they were investigating a deal between their state energy company,
:07:14. > :07:19.Statoil, and the Iranians. It was to develop a gasfield off southern
:07:20. > :07:24.Iran. Fraud investigators here wanted to know if Mehdi Rafsanjani,
:07:25. > :07:32.then an official in the Iranian oil and gas company, was getting it back
:07:33. > :07:38.of millions of dollars. -- kickback. And also if Abbas Yazdi was acting
:07:39. > :07:48.as a front man for his old friend. Cato Schiotz was Mr Yazdi's lawyer
:07:49. > :07:53.in the Norwegian investigation. He stressed that he had no part in it
:07:54. > :07:57.and no knowledge of what was the core of the matter. Is it fair to
:07:58. > :08:04.say Mr Yazdi had a reputation as a fixer, a man who dabbled in a shady
:08:05. > :08:11.world? I have no indication in that respect. A year later, Norway's
:08:12. > :08:17.corruption investigation into Statoil's deal in Iran was
:08:18. > :08:22.concluded. Statoil paid a fine of 20 million kroner, nearly ?2 million.
:08:23. > :08:27.It was the largest fine in any corruption case in Norway at that
:08:28. > :08:34.time. But the case was settled and the company admitted no liability.
:08:35. > :08:41.The Norwegian authorities brought no charges against either Mr Yazdi or
:08:42. > :08:44.his old friend Mehdi Rafsanjani. Both the British and the Norwegian
:08:45. > :08:54.authorities dropped any case against him. Say Mr Yazdi was completely
:08:55. > :08:57.exonerated? Yes, 100%. Abbas Yazdi moved his family to Dubai. Many
:08:58. > :09:07.expatriates Iranians live here and do business with Iran. What was your
:09:08. > :09:12.husband doing in Dubai? V has a general trading company. Did he do
:09:13. > :09:16.business with Iran and did he have contacts and friends there? He has
:09:17. > :09:21.friends there of course but he did not do any business with the
:09:22. > :09:26.Government in Iran. Iran's moderates were replaced in 2005 by a hardline
:09:27. > :09:33.Government under President Ahmadinejad. The rise of this new
:09:34. > :09:35.Iranian faction means that new deals are being re-examined, holds deals
:09:36. > :09:45.are being annulled, cancelled, shaken up. -- old deals. One deal
:09:46. > :09:52.that the regime reneges Don was a multi-million dollar gas contract
:09:53. > :09:58.with Crescent Petroleum based nearby. Very big economic deals
:09:59. > :10:04.during that period, including the Crescent deal, did fall prey to
:10:05. > :10:08.political rivalries and higher-level machinations. Mr Yazdi and present
:10:09. > :10:14.both said that after initial contacts, he was not involved in the
:10:15. > :10:20.deal. -- and Crescent. But years later he would be dragged into a
:10:21. > :10:24.battle over it. The hardliners were soon creating waves internationally,
:10:25. > :10:30.denying the Holocaust, enriching the uranium reserves. The West feared
:10:31. > :10:35.for the bomb. And then the Iranian navy seized British soldiers in the
:10:36. > :10:41.Gulf and Ahmadinejad paraded them on television before releasing them.
:10:42. > :10:47.The siege of British sailors was a crisis point for the UK and Iranian
:10:48. > :10:52.relationship. They made it clear that the Iranian establishment would
:10:53. > :10:57.react recklessly and they had no longer the same checks and balances
:10:58. > :11:02.that they may have had five or six years previously. Despite this, just
:11:03. > :11:06.one month later, the British Government was dealing with Iran
:11:07. > :11:10.behind closed doors. The Iranians contacted the Home Office. They
:11:11. > :11:17.wanted Abbas Yazdi's records, seized four years earlier in the Norwegian
:11:18. > :11:21.investigation. The Home Office gets many requests from all over the
:11:22. > :11:25.world for help in fighting crime and bringing people to justice. But this
:11:26. > :11:33.request from Iran came at a time when moderates and reformists like
:11:34. > :11:36.former President Rafsanjani were criticising the hardline Government
:11:37. > :11:45.and it was looking for evidence of corruption linked to his family. The
:11:46. > :11:50.Home Office referred Iran's request to the Serious Fraud Office, which
:11:51. > :11:55.began sending Mr Yazdi's documents to Iran, crucially without warning
:11:56. > :12:00.him. Those decisions are now being questioned. I think Mr Yazdi's case
:12:01. > :12:04.shines a light on a very murky area of British justice. We seem to have
:12:05. > :12:08.had a request for assistance given to the Home Office, who then handed
:12:09. > :12:12.it over to the Serious Fraud Office, who said it was not for them to
:12:13. > :12:18.think one way or another. It was just for them to open the filing
:12:19. > :12:23.cabinets and hand over the materials. The Serious Fraud Office
:12:24. > :12:30.letter is showing that they passed over the materials from Abbas's
:12:31. > :12:35.computer to the Iranian side. That is his computer? Later, Atena Yazdi
:12:36. > :12:40.would discover just how many of her husband's records the Serious Fraud
:12:41. > :12:48.Office sent to Iran. It looks like that is five Hard Drive images. Yes.
:12:49. > :12:55.Do we know how many documents? Over 20,000 pages. And the documents were
:12:56. > :13:02.sent in several batches over a five-year periods. Some might say it
:13:03. > :13:07.was right his documents came out because that was the murky world he
:13:08. > :13:11.inhabited. But it is not the murky world that we inhabit. The fact that
:13:12. > :13:16.he may or may not have been involved in corruption would provide no
:13:17. > :13:19.justification whatsoever for the British cooperating with the foreign
:13:20. > :13:25.law enforcement agency that has no respect for the rule of law and
:13:26. > :13:29.which probably was acting out of political motivation. Abbas Yazdi
:13:30. > :13:32.soon heard rumours from Iran that his documents were being used to
:13:33. > :13:39.investigate him over the disputed Crescent deal. He found out his
:13:40. > :13:44.information was being passed to Iran and he thought it was from the
:13:45. > :13:52.regime, so he tried to warn them that he was worried for his life and
:13:53. > :13:57.other people's lives. Mr Yazdi contacted his Norwegian lawyer again
:13:58. > :14:04.to find out if fraud investigators here had passed his private records
:14:05. > :14:09.to Iran. Carl Shotts realised -- Cato Schiotz realised how high the
:14:10. > :14:15.stakes were. He was afraid of being attacked, hurt, killed. Who said
:14:16. > :14:22.that to you? Yes, he was afraid of his life. The Norwegian fraud
:14:23. > :14:27.investigators confirmed they had not given any of the sensitive documents
:14:28. > :14:32.seized in London to Iran. But the UK authorities were dealing with Iran.
:14:33. > :14:37.A British lawyer instructed by the Iranians met Serious Fraud Office
:14:38. > :14:42.officials to discuss what Iran had told them was an investigation
:14:43. > :14:46.involving serious crime. The SFO trawled through Mr Yazdi's records
:14:47. > :14:53.for information about his international business dealings. All
:14:54. > :14:54.his computer records, all the documents. It was continuing. Every
:14:55. > :14:58.time they could collect something, documents. It was continuing. Every
:14:59. > :15:01.they would pass it to Iran. The Serious Fraud Office even allowed an
:15:02. > :15:05.Iranian judge to sift through Mr Yazdi's documents in their offices.
:15:06. > :15:08.Foreign officials can be given access to the SFO for research
:15:09. > :15:16.before making a formal request for material. But this visit has raised
:15:17. > :15:25.some eyebrows. I don't recall when I was DPP having meetings with Iranian
:15:26. > :15:28.officials in my office. But I would hope that in conducting those sorts
:15:29. > :15:30.of meetings, British law enforcement officials would be extremely
:15:31. > :15:38.circumspect with representatives of a state like Iran. Mr Ahmadinejad
:15:39. > :15:41.was re-elected in 2009. Opposition protests were brutally put down.
:15:42. > :15:44.There were show trials and executions overseen by a judiciary
:15:45. > :15:52.firmly in the grip of the hardliners. I think the events of
:15:53. > :15:56.2009 finally persuaded many countries in the west that this was
:15:57. > :15:59.an out and out repressive government that really was unwilling to
:16:00. > :16:08.compromise even with its own internal dissidents. But even after
:16:09. > :16:10.the British embassy in Tehran was attacked in 2011 and diplomatic
:16:11. > :16:25.staff recalled, the secret flow of Mr Yazdi's documents continued. At
:16:26. > :16:28.the time the UK didn't have any relationship with Iran. They even
:16:29. > :16:32.closed the embassies. But under the table, they did these things. Abbas
:16:33. > :16:35.Yazdi would never have discovered the British were passing his
:16:36. > :16:38.documents to Iran but for that long-running but obscure case over
:16:39. > :16:40.the disputed Crescent gas deal. After eight years of legal
:16:41. > :16:46.wrangling, the Iranians suddenly produced copies of some of Mr
:16:47. > :16:54.Yazdi's documents. He was very, very upset. He was shocked. He came home
:16:55. > :16:57.and he was almost shouting and he said, "How could they do that? They
:16:58. > :17:04.pass even the information about kids' school, the family car and
:17:05. > :17:07.everything!" In London, lawyers for Crescent wrote to the SFO warning of
:17:08. > :17:13.the dangers of passing information to Iran. But they couldn't get any
:17:14. > :17:17.information. According to an SFO letter we've seen, at this critical
:17:18. > :17:26.moment, they sent another batch of Mr Yazdi's records to Iran after
:17:27. > :17:29.they'd been warned of the dangers. They seem to be falling over
:17:30. > :17:32.themselves to be as helpful as possible, indeed handing over on the
:17:33. > :17:37.face of it more documents than the Iranians were even asking for. So it
:17:38. > :17:41.did seem like a very cosy kind of relationship seemed to have
:17:42. > :17:48.developed. The SFO even sent a copy of Mr Yazdi's computer contacts book
:17:49. > :17:51.to Iran. I know two people are missing, and two are in prison
:17:52. > :18:00.related to informations SFO passed to Iran. Crescent now instructed
:18:01. > :18:06.legal heavyweight Ken Macdonald to intervene on Mr Yazdi's behalf. So
:18:07. > :18:12.what happened when you contacted the Serious Fraud Office? It was clear
:18:13. > :18:16.from what the SFO told me that the Home Office had sanctioned this and
:18:17. > :18:24.this had been done at the request of the HO and I also understood this
:18:25. > :18:26.had been going on for some time. Ken Macdonald wasn't satisfied and kept
:18:27. > :18:38.warning of the dangers. In Iran, last year's presidential
:18:39. > :18:44.election campaign was now under way. Moderates were challenging the
:18:45. > :18:51.hardliners. It was a very fragile moment. No one knew quite who was up
:18:52. > :18:53.and who was down. So I think the Rafsanjani family's position within
:18:54. > :18:58.Iranian politics was highly unstable at this time. For hardliners
:18:59. > :19:01.alleging Mehdi Rafsanjani to be corrupt, Abbas Yazdi's documents on
:19:02. > :19:09.their past dealings may have been key. They couldn't prove many
:19:10. > :19:17.accusations against Mehdi so they needed this information I think
:19:18. > :19:18.because of that again. Back in England, Ken MacDonald was now
:19:19. > :19:21.because of that again. Back in urgently seeking a meeting with the
:19:22. > :19:27.Home Secretary, Teresa May. He stressed Mr Yazdi was in danger.
:19:28. > :19:31.Did you get an answer from the Home Secretary herself at the top of all
:19:32. > :19:34.this? No, I didn't. How do you feel about that? Well obviously I was
:19:35. > :19:41.hoping to see the Home Secretary. I thought this was a serious case, a
:19:42. > :19:45.serious issue. She's a very busy woman and perhaps was too busy but I
:19:46. > :19:48.was hoping to have a conversation with her and unfortunately that
:19:49. > :19:51.didn't happen. In Dubai, on the very day Ken Macdonald was chasing the
:19:52. > :19:56.Home Secretary, Abbas Yazdi was driving to an office block. He'd
:19:57. > :20:03.decided to give evidence by videolink in the Crescent case to
:20:04. > :20:08.clear his name. The Iranians were using Mr Yazdi's documents to allege
:20:09. > :20:13.corruption in the deal. He and Crescent both denied it. I must
:20:14. > :20:19.leave the premises at a certain time. It's a security concern of
:20:20. > :20:22.mine. After three hours, Mr Yazdi insisted he must leave. He was
:20:23. > :20:27.clearly concerned for his safety. I've been subject to numerous
:20:28. > :20:30.threats. He got warning from Iran - from his well connected friends in
:20:31. > :20:36.Iran - they are preparing to come and kidnap you. He thought he has
:20:37. > :20:44.time to prepare, to arrange everything and go out of Dubai.
:20:45. > :20:49.We've discovered that a flat had been rented several months before in
:20:50. > :20:53.Deira, Dubai's Iranian quarter. It was used as a base for members of
:20:54. > :21:02.Iran's intelligence services to spy on Mr Yazdi. The day after he gave
:21:03. > :21:08.his testimony, three men set out from Deira towards his office. Mr
:21:09. > :21:14.Yazdi had gone there as normal. He was preparing to give more evidence
:21:15. > :21:26.the next day. Everything here is just as it was. As the kidnappers
:21:27. > :21:32.closed in, Mr Yazdi phoned his wife. He said, "I'm very tired. I'm coming
:21:33. > :21:38.home." He wanted to be relaxed at home and get ready and prepare for
:21:39. > :21:41.Wednesday, the rest of testimony. Abbas Yazdi used the back stairs
:21:42. > :21:43.from his office to reach the underground car park. The three men
:21:44. > :21:54.were waiting in the shadows. They bundled Mr Yazdi into his own
:21:55. > :22:03.car, and drove up the ramp and out into the evening rush hour traffic.
:22:04. > :22:08.The car was registered passing through a motorway toll gate heading
:22:09. > :22:14.to Sharjah, the port adjacent to Dubai. There Mr Yazdi was put into
:22:15. > :22:25.another vehicle - his car, abandoned. Both his mobile phones,
:22:26. > :22:29.they were switched off. I tried again and again, and then I was
:22:30. > :22:36.getting worried. Mrs Yazdi alerted the Dubai security services. It was
:22:37. > :22:41.a terrible night. All night I was on the phone. Just before dawn, a
:22:42. > :22:47.witness saw Mr Yazdi being taken aboard a boat in Sharjah, piloted by
:22:48. > :22:50.an Iranian captain. It set sail across the Gulf towards Iran, as Mrs
:22:51. > :22:56.Yazdi had warned Dubai's authorities. I said, "These people,
:22:57. > :23:01.I believe they kidnap him and they're going to take him to Iran."
:23:02. > :23:08.As the Dubai police began to investigate, Ken MacDonald heard
:23:09. > :23:12.back from the Home Office. The decision to send the documents had
:23:13. > :23:17.been sanctioned at the top by a minister. The ministerial decision
:23:18. > :23:19.was that the Iranians were engaged in a legitimate criminal
:23:20. > :23:22.investigation, that there were no human rights implications in sending
:23:23. > :23:27.information about Mr Yazdi to that particular law enforcement agency.
:23:28. > :23:34.It wasn't a reason that I regarded as being supportable or defensible,
:23:35. > :23:37.but that was the reason. Two months later, British police told Atena
:23:38. > :23:43.Yazdi the Foreign Office had new information. The officer said, "We
:23:44. > :23:50.believe your husband has been killed during the abduction." And I asked,
:23:51. > :23:54."Do you have any more information, any proof, any evidence?" And he
:23:55. > :24:09.said, "No. That's the only thing we have." There's been no further news
:24:10. > :24:12.about Mr Yazdi. His wife, meanwhile, has discovered the most worrying
:24:13. > :24:16.piece of information the UK gave Iran - his office address in Dubai.
:24:17. > :24:20.This is the place they abducted Abbas from.
:24:21. > :24:23.So the British authorities gave to the Iranians the actual address
:24:24. > :24:33.where they could find him in Dubai. Exactly. That's terrible. Last
:24:34. > :24:36.month, the Dubai security servcies arrested three Iranians, caught
:24:37. > :24:42.trying to dispose of Mr Yazdi's wallet, credit cards and passport.
:24:43. > :24:46.But then, another bizarre twist. It's now emerged that a few days
:24:47. > :24:49.after the Dubai police arrested the three Iranians the leader of the
:24:50. > :24:58.gang, a man who apparently worked for Iran's intelligence agencies was
:24:59. > :25:02.found dead in custody. We were hopeful they have the main guy and
:25:03. > :25:08.they can ask him and find out what happened to Abbas. It was so bad.
:25:09. > :25:16.They had the main person, the main key and they couldn't use it. Mr
:25:17. > :25:19.Yazdi was seized a few days after a new more moderate President was
:25:20. > :25:29.elected in Iran, but before he took office. So, was the kidnap a last
:25:30. > :25:33.throw of the dice by hardliners seeking to damage their enemies? If
:25:34. > :25:36.they hadn't found what they looking for in Mr Yazdi's documents, did
:25:37. > :25:43.they seize him to force a confession out of him? There are three sets of
:25:44. > :25:47.investigators still trying to find out what happened to Abbas Yazdi -
:25:48. > :25:52.the Dubai police, officers sent from Scotland Yard, and a team sent by
:25:53. > :25:54.the new Iranian government. But the question remains, what
:25:55. > :26:03.responsibility should the UK authorities bear for the
:26:04. > :26:07.disappearance of Mr Yazdi? I do blame SFO and I do blame UK
:26:08. > :26:12.government. They put Abbas and many other people's lives in danger. And
:26:13. > :26:20.now I urge them to stand up and find out what happened and save him. We
:26:21. > :26:25.can't get answers to the serious questions raised by Mr Yazdi's case.
:26:26. > :26:31.The SFO told Panorama they would not comment and referred us to the Home
:26:32. > :26:34.Office. The Home Secretary didn't respond and the Home Office said
:26:35. > :26:40.they couldn't confirm or deny requests for legal assistance from
:26:41. > :26:43.abroad. I don't think it's any good for them to stonewall. That's a
:26:44. > :26:47.ludicrous position, with respect to the Home Office, to be adopting.
:26:48. > :26:53.They really need to provide an explanation about what they were
:26:54. > :26:56.doing and why they were doing it. I think this is sufficiently serious
:26:57. > :27:04.for the Home Secretary to direct her personal attention to it. Questions
:27:05. > :27:07.are now being asked in Parliament. When I ask questions, I'm not
:27:08. > :27:11.getting answers. We're talking about the wellbeing, the welfare, the
:27:12. > :27:15.safety of a British citizen. Someone somewhere should be saying to us, "I
:27:16. > :27:24.made this decision because..." There should be some sort of
:27:25. > :27:28.accountability. The new Iranian government says it's concerned about
:27:29. > :27:35.what's happened to Mr Yazdi but they wouldn't speak to us. So, will his
:27:36. > :27:38.family ever discover the truth? I won't give up until I find out
:27:39. > :27:48.what's happened exactly where Abbas is. Whatever time it takes, I won't
:27:49. > :27:55.give up. To tackle crime, the British government sometimes has to
:27:56. > :28:00.deal with unsavoury regimes. But the question raised by Abbas Yazdi's
:28:01. > :28:06.story is, should they still do so when it puts someone's life at risk?