embezzlement

He faces a lengthy jail sentence in Moldova for money laundering and embezzlement.

He’s been told that, in return, the embezzlement case against him would be frozen and potentially dropped when the war ends.

Mrs Hajiyeva's husband, Jahangir, was the chairman of the state-controlled International Bank of Azerbaijan from 2001 to 2015 and is serving a 16-year jail sentence for fraud and embezzlement.

The agency believes the golf course and house were obtained as a “direct result of large-scale fraud and embezzlement, false accounting and money laundering”.

Shor fled Moldova in 2019 and was later sentenced in absentia for money laundering and embezzlement.