The National Crime Agency has confiscated a house and a golf club from the wife of an Azerbaijani banker who was jailed for fraud.
The wife of a banker who was jailed in Azerbaijan for fraud and embezzlement has agreed to surrender a £14 million house in London and a golf club to the National Crime Agency.
Zamira Hajiyeva, who is chronicled as having spent £16 million at Harrods over the space of 10 years, has given up the house in Knightsbridge and the golf club in Ascot following a civil recovery investigation by the NCA.
Her husband, Jahangir Hajiyev, was the chairman of the state-controlled International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) between 2001 and 2015 but is currently serving a 16-year jail sentence in the Azeri capital, Baku.
In June 2023 the NCA filed a claim for civil recovery at the High Court in London.
On August 1, a High Court judge granted a civil recovery order resulting in the forfeiture of 70 percent of the value of both properties.
Wife Was First To Be Served
Hajiyeva was the first person made subject to an unexplained wealth order (UWO) in 2019.
UWOs were introduced in January 2018 under what have been dubbed McMafia laws, named after a BBC drama about the Russian…
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