Millionaire wife loses ‘McMafia’ order challenge

The wife of a jailed banker who spent £16m of the cash he stole at Harrods has lost her Court of Appeal challenge against a ‘McMafia’ unexplained wealth order. Zamira Hajiyeva, 56, splashed out on foreign trips and school fees for her three children and bought a £10.5 million 170-acre golf course. She was said to have been a member of an ‘organised criminal group’ of 37 people involved in embezzling £76m from the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) between…

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