Court documents made public today reveal that a woman suspected by British authorities of having ill-gotten wealth spent £600,000 in one day at upmarket department store Harrods and once forked out £30,000 on chocolates.
Zamira Hajiyeva is the first person subject to an Unexplained Wealth Order, which allows British authorities to seize assets from people suspected of corruption or links to organised crime until the owners account for how they were acquired.
Britain's National Crime Agency wants to know where Hajiyeva, whose banker husband is in jail in Azerbaijan, got the money to fund her spending and buy two UK properties worth £22 million — including a house just around the corner from Harrods.
Investigators say Hajiyeva spent £16m at Harrods between 2006 and 2016, using 35 credit cards issued by a bank led by her husband.
Harrods records disclosed at the High Court detail spending that includes £5.75m at jewellers Boucheron and Cartier, £1m in Harrods' toy department and £30,000 at chocolatier Godiva.
