Mohammad Ghadami

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Mohammad Reza Ghadami (born March 1954) is an Iranian-born British property developer [1] based in Harlow, Essex. [2]

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In 1995, Ghadami was convicted in the Crown Court at St Albans of two counts of being knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of Value Added Tax. [3]

In 2004, Ghadami was involved in a legal dispute with Harlow Council over the Harvey Centre [4] in Harlow and other businesses that he owned that resulted in court proceedings. [5] [6] [7]

In April 2014, a London court ordered British property investor Paul Bloomfield, who was an associate of Ghadami [8] and has since died, to pay Ghadami £110m in damages. [9]

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