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Application by Telegraph Media Group Limited, described as "the publisher of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph in London", to take discovery from Michael Zweig for use in "a defamation action" in England filed by Muhammad Ziaullah Khan Chishti, a.k.a. Zia Chishti, described as "an entrepreneur with citizenship of the United States and Pakistan", regarding "allegedly false statements made in two articles from a series that it published about public testimony given by Tatiana Spottiswoode to the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint alleging, inter alia, that Muhammad Ziaullah Khan Chishti, a.k.a. Zia Chishti, and his wife, Sarah Pobereskin, "set up an array of companies based in China, Pakistan, and elsewhere to improperly convert and commercially exploit Afiniti Trade Secrets" in Afiniti Ltd., of Bermuda, and Afiniti Inc., of Delaware, both part of a group that "provides applied artificial intelligence services and other technologies to help its clients improve interactions in contact centers, such as call centers" v. Muhammad Ziaullah Khan Chishti, "born Wilson Dewy Lear", described as "a dual citizen of the United States and Pakistan"; Qinhe (Hainan) Intelligent Technology Ltd., of China; Isbei Ltd., of the Cayman Islands; Isbei (Hainan) Technology Co. Ltd., of China; Isbei AI (Private) Ltd., of Pakistan, and Sarah Pobereskin, described as "a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom", at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.