There was 'no reasonable explanation' for the money used to buy the house and golf club, said the NCA.
The wife of a jailed banker has agreed to forfeit a £14m Knightsbridge house and a golf club after being targeted by the UK's 'McMafia' laws. Zamira Hajiyeva - who spent more than £16m at Harrods in a decade and £600,000 in one day - was investigated by the National Crime Agency for six years. The agency said there was 'no reasonable explanation' for how she paid for the properties and the cash likely came from fraud, embezzlement and money laundering.
'The purchase of the golf club was conducted through a complex structure of Luxembourg and Guernsey-registered companies, and by using offshore trusts in Guernsey and later, Cyprus,' said the NCA. It believes the money for the house came from two IBA accounts - again concealed via multiple foreign bank accounts and the payments sent to the UK by an associate of Mr Hajiyev.
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