Sale of seized Ascot golf course and £14m London home under way

Moves to sell a Berkshire golf club and a £14m Knightsbridge house which were forfeited by a jailed banker’s wife have begun.

Zamira Hajiyeva agreed to give up the assets after a six-year National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation, which resulted in the UK’s first unexplained wealth order (UWO).

Mrs Hajiyeva’s husband, Jahangir, was the chairman of the state-controlled International Bank of Azerbaijan from 2001 to 2015 and is serving a 16-year jail sentence for fraud and embezzlement.

The NCA confirmed a trustee had been appointed by the High Court to sell the Mill Ride Golf Club in Ascot and the London house.