U.K. authorities have used asset freezing orders, unexplained wealth orders, or UWOs, and older civil-recovery statutes to restrain and seize record sums of suspicious assets in recent years, including real estate from allegedly corrupt overseas politicos and other criminals.
The U.K.'s National Crime Agency issued a press release to announce that an Unexplained Wealth Order against Zamira Hajiyeva remained in place, following a review by the High Court in London.
February 5, 2020