Revealed: Ayatollah's son owns £50million luxury apartments overlooking Israeli embassy in London
The son of
Iran's recently killed dictator owns two luxury apartments overlooking the
Israeli embassy in
London, with experts warning of a 'serious security breach', it emerged on Saturday night.
Mojtaba Khamenei – tipped to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as Iran's new Ayatollah – owns the properties in Kensington, west London, with an estimated value of more than £50million.
The sixth and seventh floor apartments, which come with servants' quarters on the ground floor, are a stone's throw from Kensington Palace, the official residence of the Prince and
Princess of Wales.
Khamenei, 56, is understood to have owned the two apartments since 2014, but his ownership only emerged after a year-long investigation by the news channel Bloomberg.
It has revealed Khamenei also owns 11 mansions in Hampstead, North London, through a front man and a shell company registered in the Isle of Man.
The Bloomberg investigation also revealed Khamenei has amassed a portfolio of properties around the world worth hundreds of millions of pounds.
The funds for the purchases came from Iran's sanction-busting oil programme. according to the probe.