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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Martin Bentham

Azerbaijani banker's wife says £15m Knightsbridge home bought legitimately

A banker’s wife who splashed out £16 million at Harrods has told the High Court how she moved to London after being kidnapped and held in a tiny hole underground for weeks as part of an attempt to stop her Knightsbridge home being seized as the proceeds of crime.

Zamira Hajiyeva is accused by the National Crime Agency of buying her £15 million Walton Street home and a multi-million pound golf club in Berkshire with a fortune plundered by her husband Jahangir from the state bank in Azerbaijan.

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