£10,000 WALKIES!

Most of us would take the dog out wearing a tatty old jacket and jeans... not the conman’s wife who splurged £16m in Harrods

EVEN for someone with a pedigree for extravagant spending as long as hers, the price of fraudster’s wife Zamira Hajiyeva’s dog-walking outfit is not to be sniffed at.

The woman who spent £16million at Harrods in a decade is pictured here in designer gear estimated to have cost a total of more than £8,500 as she went for walkies with her pet Pomeranian. If you include the price of her dog, it takes the sum to near £10,000.

On the recent stroll near her £11.5million mansion in Knightsbridge, Mrs Hajiyeva wore £625 Gucci Ace sneakers, £530 Gucci striped jersey track pants, and £290 Miu Miu sunglasses.

Her handbag, a £6,500 Hermes ‘Constance’, was by far the most expensive part of the ensemble, which was completed with a black jacket from an unidentified brand estimated to have cost around £800 based on its style.

The wool-lined interior and trim of her sneakers even appeared to co-ordinate with the colour of her dog, which – unlike her spending – she kept on a tight leash.

Pomeranian puppies can cost upwards of £1,000, depending on lineage. The dogs have been estimated to cost on average around £1,500 a year to look after – so Mrs Hajiyeva, 55, could have paid for her pet’s upkeep for nearly six years with the £8,745 that her outfit is thought to have cost in total.

As owners who fail to clean up

‘Husband was jailed for fraud’

after their dogs can face fines of up to £1,000, it was heartening, at least, to see what appears to be a dog waste bag holder attached to Mrs Hajiyeva’s pet’s lead.

Her husband Jahangir Hajiyeva is the former chairman of the International Bank of Azerbaijan. He was jailed in 2016 for 15 years after being convicted of embezzlement in Azerbaijan.

Mrs Hajiyeva was put on a ‘wanted’ list by police there, but by then she was living full-time in Britain. Now she is the subject of two unexplained wealth orders, or UWOs. These are a new measure that allow investigators to apply to a court to force foreigners suspected of being corrupt to prove that the source of their wealth is legitimate.

The identities of Mrs Hajiyeva and her husband were revealed earlier this month after a judge ruled that it was in the public interest.

In the decade up to 2016 she spent £16.3million at Harrods. In one visit alone she blew more than £150,000 on Boucheron and Cartier jewellery. She paid for the purchases using the 35 credit cards issued to her by her husband’s bank.