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An Azerbaijani woman who spent about 16 million euros in London's Harrods department store and was the first to be targeted by the new UK legislation on "unexplained wealth" was released on bail Thursday, while the government of the United Kingdom and the United States of America. she was fighting a request for extradition from Baku.
Zamira Hajiyeva, who was arrested last week in London, faces two charges of embezzlement in Azerbaijan.
She was detained after Baku appealed the decision of a court of law granting her bail of 500,000 ($ 655,000 / € 573,000), claiming that she was running a risk of flight.
But Judge Jeremy Baker of the London High Court ruled that there were no "substantial grounds" to believe that she would leave the country.
He ordered his release but imposed a curfew under which he will not be allowed to leave his luxury home in southwestern London between 9pm and 6am.
Hajiyeva, who was not in court, must also report to a police station in central London every day. She has surrendered her passport and is prohibited from traveling outside the London M25 ring road.
Hajiyev's husband, Jahangir, was jailed in 2016 for embezzling money from the International Bank of Azerbaijan, where he was president.
Moreover, she is under the control of the British National Crime Agency, which issued a so-called "Unexplained Order of Wealth" (UWO) demanding that she explain where she got $ 11.5 million. to pay for his property in Knightsbridge.
The court that made the order also learned that she had spent more than 16 million euros in Harrods over a 10 year period.
UWOs were incorporated into UK law in January 2018 as part of the fight against money laundering.
People who do not consider the sources of their funds are likely to seize their assets.
Baku appealed a court order granting bail to Hajiyeva, claiming that it represented a risk of absconding
