Switzerland plays an important intermediary role between Washington and Tehran as it represents American interests in Iran and shares messages between the two countries.

In the earlier charges, Spector was accused in 2020 of acting as an intermediary in a bribery case relating to an assistant of Russia's former deputy prime minister.

The 2015 deregulation opened the doors to more family members becoming intermediaries and there were plenty at Wembley looking to pass.

The trial has been told the defendants worked under the direction of Roussev, and that he, in turn, received instructions from Jan Marsalek, who was working as an "intermediary for the Russian intelligence services".

McFadden confirmed the UK cannot currently have communications with HTS and said he was not aware that the government had any line of communication through an intermediary with the group.