Azima’s emails were published to the web by what seemed to be a kind of whistleblower. This came at an interesting time, right as he was being sued by a client of the major U.S. law firm Dechert.

Dechert said they had nothing to do with the hack and that it was all just fortuitous timing. One of their lawyers, Neil Gerrard, told a U.K. judge he was alerted to the leak by a contractor. Even at the time, though, the judge was skeptical of Dechert’s client, RAKIA (From the 2020 judgment ⬇️)