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Martin Bentham

Don’t use £16m Harrods-spree wife to get to her husband, says court

Zamira Hajiyeva pictured

(Picture: PA)

A banker’s wife from Knightsbridge who spent £16 million in Harrods cannot be treated as her jailed husband’s “chattel” in a battle to seize her jewellery, a judge has told law enforcers.

The National Crime Agency, which is bringing forfeiture proceedings at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to claim ownership of £3.2 million of jewellery bought by Zamira Hajiyeva, wanted to pass documents to her so that she could alert her husband in his Baku prison cell about the court action.

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