Husband of Harrods spree wife 'gave Harrow thousands via his money-laundering firms'

HARROW SCHOOL received hundreds of thousands of pounds from companies that are believed were part of a money-laundering network run by a banker jailed for a huge fraud, court papers have revealed.

- Martin Bentham

Documents filed at the High Court show that the Harrow Development Trust, which finances capital projects at the public school, received “payments of £500,000” in 2014 from the Latvian account of a British Virgin Islands company that law enforcers believe was channelling the criminal profits of Jahangir Hajiyev. He was the chairman of the International Bank of Azerbaijan at the time and his sons attended Harrow. The papers also cite a 2012 “donation to a school in the UK” of £300,000 via two other companies involved in the alleged money laundering operation run on behalf of Mr Hajiyev. They describe how funds channelled through them were used to “cover the private school fees of Mr and Mrs Hajiyev’s sons”.