Wife of jailed Azeri banker forfeits house near Harrods and Ascot golf club

Wife of jailed Azeri banker forfeits house near Harrods and Ascot golf club

High spender Zamira Hajiyeva hands over assets as part of settlement worth £18.5m to taxpayers

A 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.

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