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TIL That in 2018 Zamira Hajiyeva became the first person in the UK to be prosecuted under an 'unexplained wealth order', designed to stop fraud. Her husband had been accused of stealing up to £2.2Bn from Azerbaijan. During the trial it came out she had spent over £16m in Harrods.

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