Zamira Hajiyeva

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. On 30 October 2018 she was arrested by British police acting on an extradition request from the Azerbaijani government, but her extradition was not allowed.

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, 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. She was later released on bail, with a £500,000 bond, an electronic tagging device and other conditions. Her extradition was blocked on 26 September 2019 at Westminster Magistrates Court by Emma Arbuthnot, chief magistrate senior.

In November 2018, the National Crime Agency seized 49 items of jewelry worth around £400,000 from Mrs Hajiyeva and in January 2019 they seized a diamond Cartier ring worth almost £1.2 million.

In 2016, she was placed under arrest in absentia by an Azerbaijan court in connection with her husband's activities.

In 2006, Hajiyeva moved to UK and was later granted permission to live there by the Home Office under an investor visa. She applied for indefinite leave to remain in 2015; as of October 2018, it was unclear whether she had subsequently acquired British citizenship.

In February 2005, Hajiyeva was kidnapped as she left the Magic Lady beauty salon in Baku, and held to ransom. Azerbaijan media and the BBC reported that the kidnap was carried out by the police officer Haji Mammadov (Hacı Məmmədov), chief operating officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and his bodyguard who were part of a criminal gang. An operation codenamed Black Belt resulted in Hajiyeva's release in March of that year. Gunshots were fired during the operation and at least one person died. 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.

Zamira Shirali qizi Hajiyeva (Azerbaijani: Zamirə Şirəli qızı Hacıyeva, [zɑmiɾæ ʃiɾæli ɡɯzɯ hɑdʒɯjevɑ] , born 18 July 1963) is an Azerbaijani expatriate in the United Kingdom. She is married to Jahangir Hajiyev, a former chairman of the International Bank of Azerbaijan who has since been jailed there for financial crimes. In 2018 she became the first recipient of an unexplained wealth order under a new UK anti-corruption law. She was known as "Mrs A" during the legal proceedings before her identity was revealed.

Zamira Hajiyeva was born on 18 July 1963. During her first marriage, she had a daughter, Leyla. In 1997 she married Jahangir Hajiyev, later the chairman of the state-owned International Bank of Azerbaijan from 2001 to March 2015. In October 2016, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of fraud, embezzlement, and misappropriation of public funds. The fraud is as much as £2.2 billion.