A MILLIONAIRE’S wife has been found guilty of two counts of money laundering.
A jury yesterday returned the first verdicts in the trial of a so-called Ponzi investment scheme which swindled millions of pounds from investors including ex-pats living in Mallorca.
Linda Hirst, 62, is the estranged wife of John Hirst, 61, of Millroyd Mill, Huddersfield Road, Brighouse, who has accepted his own involvement in the scheme. But his wife, who lives in Surrey, had denied seven charges, including six of money laundering.
Yesterday the jury at Bradford Crown Court found her unanimously guilty of two money laundering charges against her – one worth £170,194.00 and another for £17,300.
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