UK probes purchase of London mansion by ex-Kazakh president's grandson


General view shows houses in The Bishops Avenue, Hampstead, in London, Britain March 10, 2020. Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) has asked a grandson of the former president of Kazakhstan to explain where he got the money from to buy a multi-million pound mansion in one of north London's most expensive roads. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) has asked a grandson of the former president of Kazakhstan to explain where he got the money from to buy a multi-million pound mansion in one of north London's most expensive roads.

The house, in The Bishops Avenue, Hampstead, along with two other properties, is worth 80 million pounds ($104 million), the NCA says, and has an underground swimming pool and a cinema.

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