Monday, January 18, 2021
Background
Zamira Hajiyeva is married to Jahangir Hajiyev, a former chairman of the International Bank of Azerbaijan who, in 2016, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of fraud, embezzlement and misappropriation of £2.2 billion of public funds. Hajiyeva moved to the United Kingdom in 2006 and since then has spent significant sums of money that the British authorities said were out of keeping with her husband’s official salary.
In 2018, Hajiyeva became the first person to receive a UWO under the new anti-money-laundering legislation introduced by the Criminal Finances Act 2017. Hajiyeva was required to provide a “clear account” of the source of her spending, which included:
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Zamira Hajiyeva had expensive tastes. That much was clear to Harrods. Like many of the ultra-high-net-worth individuals who saunter into the Knightsbridge department store, the 57-year-old Azerbaijani expatriate spent freely – in her case, very freely, racking up £16.3 million in purchases at the store between 2006 and 2016. She had a particular weakness for Cartier and Boucheron: one Sunday in November 2009, she handed over a credit card to buy a £48,600 Cartier item, then she was back 12 days later for three pieces of Boucheron jewellery worth a combined £121,000. It wasn’t just jewels that caught her eye – one hungry day in 2014 she spent £2,000 on cold meats alone.
Jailed Banker’s Wife Loses Final Appeal on U.K. Asset Freeze Bloomberg 12/21/2020 Aoife White and Ellen Milligan © Photographer: Jonathan Brady - PA Images Zamira Hajiyeva was ordered to explain the source of her family’s wealth.
(Bloomberg) The wife of a jailed Azeri banker must give British authorities information on her assets after losing a Supreme Court challenge to the country’s first so-called unexplained wealth order.
Zamira Hajiyeva, who was identified as part of a crackdown linked to overseas corruption, is prevented from selling or transferring a golf club outside London and her home steps away from Harrods, which the National Crime Agency said Monday are worth more than 22 million pounds ($29 million).
Zamira Hajiyeva has lost her appeal against a £22million confiscation order
The couple, who deny all wrongdoing, were subjects of UK’s first wealth orders
Mrs Hajiyeva, 57, whose husband Jahangir has been jailed for fraud in their native Azerbaijan, had been unable to explain how she was wealthy enough to buy her home in Knightsbridge and a golf course in Berkshire
The wife of a jailed banker has lost her appeal against a £22million confiscation order seizing her London mansion.
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The Supreme Court upheld two unexplained wealth orders against Zamira Hajiyeva, who spent £16million shopping at Harrods.
Known as ‘McMafia orders’ –after the BBC gangland drama – the seizures were requestd by the National Crime Agency.
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