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Harrods mega-spender loses Supreme Court challenge – BBC News
Jailed banker’s wife Zamira Hajiyeva loses appeal against National Crime Agency bid to seize home.
Dominic CascianiHome affairs correspondent@BBCDomCon Twitter
The Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by a woman who spent £16m in Harrods to overturn the UK’s first Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO).
Zamira Hajiyeva, wife of a jailed banker, may now lose her £12m London home – and a separate golf course – if she can’t explain her riches.
The court said her challenge to the UWO raised no arguable point of law.
Mrs Hajieyva’s husband is in jail in Azerbaijan for embezzling millions of pounds from…
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