Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the Serious Fraud Office passed five files on Mr Abbas Yazdi, a British citizen, to Iranian government services between 2008 and 2013.
Requests for mutual legal assistance (MLA) may be referred by the Home Office, under section 15(2) of the Crime (International Cooperation) Act 2003, to the Serious Fraud Office for execution.
It is the usual policy neither to confirm nor deny the existence, content or status of any individual MLA requests.