Kenyan wife of N9gerian fraudster, jailed in Britain
THE Kenyan wife of a 9gerian fugitive fraudster was jailed for four years in Britain, on Wednesday, for the role she played in mortgage fraud
Ruth Ayinde-Azeez, 26, a care home assistant, who led a life of luxury thanks to an £8 million mortgage fraud, sobbed as she was sentenced, on Wednesday.
Isaac Matthews, 42, of Chatham, Kent, was sentenced to six years in jail.
Ruth Ayinde-Azeez lived in a six-bedroom mansion containing 12 plasma TVs and drove around in a top-of-the range Bentley and Land Rover.
She took lavish holidays in Dubai and the south of France, kept £1.6 million in her bank accounts and blew huge sums at upmarket bars and restaurants.
But her lifestyle was funded by crime, Southwark Crown Court heard.
Her husband, Victor, a fraudster who is on the run overseas, led a mortgage con gang which plundered nearly £6 million from high street banks in just six weeks using a network of front companies and crooked solicitors.
The court heard that Ruth Ayinde-Azeez was sucked into the criminal world of her husband and came to enjoy the trappings of excessive wealth.
The Kenyan national laundered £1.25 million and was jailed, on Wednesday, for four years for her part in the fraud.