An attempt to stop the National Crime Agency for seizing a £15m Knightsbridge home has failed at the Court of Appeal.
Zamira Hajiyeva, who had gone to court to overturn an order confiscating her property, could be forced out of the property within months after judges dismissed her case and refused to let her take it on to the Supreme Court.
The townhouse was bought in 2009 by a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.
Hajiyeva is also subject to a second Unexplained Wealth Order for her £10.5m property at the Mill Ride Golf Club near Ascot.
The NCA said the family’s property purchases and multimillion-pound spending sprees at Harrods were difficult to reconcile with it’s declared earnings of between $29,000 and $70,000 a year.
Hajiyeva is married to Jahangir Hajiyev, the former chairman of the state-controlled International Bank of Azerbaijan, who was jailed in Baku for 15 years for fraud and embezzlement. He was the subject of Mischa Glenny’s investigation McMafia.
