High spender Zamira Hajiyeva hands over assets as part of settlement worth £18.5m to taxpayersA mansion in Knightsbridge and a golf club in Ascot owned by the wife of the jailed Azeri banker Jahangir Hajiyev have been forfeited to the British state as part of a settlement worth an estimated £18.5m to taxpayers.The National Crime Agency (NCA) said the luxury properties were obtained by Hajiyev as a “direct result of large-scale fraud and embezzlement, false accounting and money laundering” linked to the looting of a state-owned bank in Azerbaijan. Continue reading…
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Author : Rob Davies
Publish date : 2024-08-05 16:03:47
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Wife of jailed Azeri banker forfeits house near Harrods and Ascot golf club
