Zamira Hajiyeva

[1] It was disclosed in court that Hajiyeva had spent £16.3 million at London's department store Harrods, as well as several other multi-million pound purchases – expenditure which the British authorities say is out of keeping with her husband's official salary.

[8][9] In February 2005, Hajiyeva was kidnapped as she left the Magic Lady beauty salon in Baku, and held to ransom.

[13] Mammadov claimed during his trial in 2006 that he was acting on the orders of Zakir Nasirov, head of the Interior Ministry's Chief Criminal Investigation Department.

[14][15] Since arriving in the UK, Hajiyeva has spent significant sums of money that the British authorities say are out of keeping with her husband's official salary.

In 2018, she became the first person to receive an unexplained wealth order under a new UK anti-corruption law,[1] and has to provide a "clear account" of the source of her spending, which included: Hajiyeva was arrested on 30 October 2018 by British police acting on an extradition request from the Azerbaijani authorities in connection with two charges of embezzlement.