The video shows an attractive middle-aged woman wearing a plunging green vest top and designer sunglasses, opening the double-height doors to a white stucco mansion. She smiles and guides the camera into a vast hall: it's clear that whoever owns the £4 million, six-bedroom property must be rich.
A WAG? Some oligarch's arm candy? No, Reader, you'll never guess who...!
...the third wife of Scotland Yard's most notorious corrupt commander, Ali Dizaei.
Well, you could knock me down with a feather!
Less than a decade ago, after finishing a second term behind bars, Dizaei was said to be on his uppers — pleading with a judge to allow him to have more of his police pension (some of which had been confiscated) because he was penniless following his incarceration.
Did he win the Euromillions, then?
According to Land Registry records, he jointly owns the Surrey pile with his wife. The Dizaeis have given it an extensive make-over, conservatively estimated to have cost several hundred thousand pounds.
For whatever reason, Dizaei and his wife are keen to flaunt their wealth to the world. Maybe the disgraced police officer has a point to prove to his former colleagues at the Met?
If so, I suspect it's one they already know full well; crime pays after all.
