Telegraph Media Group has apologised and paid “substantial” damages in a libel settlement with tech entrepreneur Zia Chishti.

The payout follows Chishti winning the largest defamation damages award in Pakistani legal history last year against Narratives Magazine over reporting of the same allegations.

Between November 2021 and February 2023 The Telegraph repeatedly reported on allegations of sexual misconduct made by Tatiana Spottiswoode, a former employee of Chishti’s AI company Afiniti, to the United States Congress Judiciary Committee.