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A U.K. judge ordered the seizure of £5.6 million Monday from accounts controlled by relatives of a prominent Azeri lawmaker who allegedly moved the funds into Britain through a network of bank accounts and shell companies since dubbed the Azerbaijani Laundromat. In a ruling handed down at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, District Judge John Zani concluded that from 2012 to 2017, Javanshir Feyziyev, a former businessman and member of Azerbaijan's Parliament, received "substantial sums" of money funneled through the network, and that at least some of the funds "related to money laundering." But Monday's ruling represents only a partial...