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Evening Standard
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Martin Bentham

Jailed McMafia banker 'causing trouble from prison to disrupt seizure of wife's jewellery worth millions'

The jailed husband of a Knightsbridge woman who splashed out £16 million at Harrods has been accused in court of causing “trouble” from his Baku prison cell in a bid to disrupt law enforcers’ efforts to take ownership of his wife’s jewels.

Lawyers for Zamira Hajiyeva, who is being targeted under an “unexplained wealth order” obtained by the National Crime Agency, are arguing at Westminster Magistrates’ court that proceedings to forfeit her multi-million jewellery collection should be halted because her husband Jahangir is in prison in Azerbaijan and unable to take part.

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