Who owned 221b Baker Street, the London property that served as Sherlock Holmes’s fictional home, has been a mystery worthy of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel. For five years there has been speculation about the identity of the flat’s proprietor.
The Times can now reveal that the building — along with £140 million of other property and land between 215 and 237 Baker Street — was owned by the daughter of the former president of Kazakhstan and her son.
Leaked legal correspondence relating to the ownership structure of the properties, seen by the investigative news site SourceMaterial and this newspaper, show that they were owned by Dariga Nazarbayeva, 57, and her son Nurali Aliyev, 35, in 2015. They are the daughter and grandson of Nursultan
