The UK High Court of Justice ruled in favor of investigative journalists in a libel claim. In September 2017, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (OCCRP) published an investigative series on an alleged money-laundering operation involving members of the ruling elite in Azerbaijan. The case was brought against OCCRP by a member of the Azerbaijan parliament who claimed he was unjustly implicated in the alleged corruption. The Court ultimately found that a hypothetical reasonable reader would understand the qualifying language and disclaimers used in relation to his alleged involvement, and that while the report found there were reasonable grounds to suspect his involvement, the evidence presented was clearly inconclusive on his level of guilt.