Fifty-two-year-old Nighat Awan was held “on suspicion of conspiracy to facilitate illegal immigration”, the Daily Mail reported here on Sunday, quoting a senior police officer as saying. A government race adviser closely linked to former prime minister Tony Blair’s wife Cherie, Awan owns the Shere Khan chain of restaurants in UK and has been dubbed the ‘Queen of Curry’.
In February, her husband Rafique Awan was arrested in the same probe. He was interrogated after the police searched the couple’s four-million-pound ‘White House-style’ mansion in Hale Barns, Cheshire.
