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Zamira Hajiyeva had expensive tastes. That much was clear to Harrods. Like many of the ultra-high-net-worth individuals who saunter into the Knightsbridge department store, the 57-year-old Azerbaijani expatriate spent freely – in her case, very freely, racking up £16.3 million in purchases at the store between 2006 and 2016. She had a particular weakness for Cartier and Boucheron: one Sunday in November 2009, she handed over a credit card to buy a £48,600 Cartier item, then she was back 12 days later for three pieces of Boucheron jewellery worth a combined £121,000. It wasn’t just jewels that caught her eye – one hungry day in 2014 she spent £2,000 on cold meats alone.