It may well be that TEAS does raise all its income from members, or that Tale Heydarov has another source of earnings. But if that is so, the evidence has never been presented, which leads to corrosive speculation that money embezzled from Azerbaijan’s state budget could have found its way to London, been spent on MPs, and thus persuaded them to praise the Azerbaijan government in the House of Commons. This is clearly a very worrying thought, and not the kind of speculation that helps expand faith in democracy.
