Care worker helped her husband launder £6m from mortgage scam
A care home assistant who led a life of luxury by helping her crooked husband launder the profits of a £6 million mortgage con was facing jail today.
Ruth Ayinde-Azeez, 26, lived in a six-bedroom house with 12 plasma televisions and drove a Bentley and Land Rover.
She took holidays in Dubai and the south of France, kept £1.6 million in her bank accounts and blew huge sums at expensive bars and restaurants. But her life was funded by crime, Southwark crown court heard.
Her husband Victor led a mortgage fraud gang which plundered nearly £6 million from high street banks in six weeks.
He "bought" 22 houses around the South-East and, with his accomplices, applied for mortgages from high street lenders including Bradford and Bingley and Abbey National. The paperwork was signed off by crooked solicitors.
When Ayinde-Azeez was arrested, she was about to leave the country after her husband texted her a warning that the police were on their way. He is believed to be abroad.
The Kenyan national was told by Judge Martin Beddoe: "It seems to me that I'm going to have to pass on you a significant sentence, without credit for a guilty plea."
