Woman spends over 4 thousand in Harrods every day for 10 years

[FarrahMoan]

AIBU to ask how the fuck? Surely you can only replace furniture, gadgets etc so quickly. Maybe if you bought a brand new outfit everyday? A £1k bottle of champagne? I'm amazed and disgusted in equal measure

(she spent £16mil over 10 years - the equivalent of over £4k per day)

Why are you disgusted though? If she has the money, why not?

In comparison to most countries in the world, the amount literally anyone spends in the UK is disgusting.

I wish she'd lend me a few quid

Well she's being investigated for money laundering...so she might not 'have the money' after all!

Well....that money isn’t disappearing into thin air. She’s clearly a clueless person to spend on things like that but at least employees wages are being made, manufacturers are being paid and suppliers are getting business they wouldn’t have without her.

She is the wife of an embezzler at a bank so the chances are it wasn't her money she was spending. She is being investigated for "unexplained wealth" currently. I also find it disgusting.

Regardless of where she got the money, it is pretty eye opening that she managed to spend that much. There must be a fair amount of wasted food, barely worn clothes, etc.

I was shocked when I started work to meet someone who only wore her tights or stockings once. They were disposable.

thisisthefirststep she and her husband are being investigated for money laundering, so yes she has the money but maybe not lawfully

But regardless of that I struggle with the idea that she has so much when so many have so little.

farrah well that's beyond the point, really.

We all have a LOT more than eg a factory worker in a village in Indonesia or a farmer in Cambodia, so tbh, I don't get the moral outrage. We could all be doing far more with the money we have to help others, but we don't.

thisisthefirststep I can't deny that

Apparently she was buying things like jewellery which makes me think she was turning cash into saleable assets. I think there's a lot more to it than her spending money for the sake of it.

She had 35 credit cards issued by her husbands bank. That she got away with it for so long is incredible.

I bet whatever money she spent hasn't effectively trickled down to the common person.

It looks like say have been laundering the money through Harrods. The more processes it goes through, the harder it is to trace the origin. She didn't need any of the stuff she was buying but watches/jewellery etc are a common purchase for money launderers

She didn’t spend £4,000 every day, she spent the equivalent of that over a 10 year period. The reports said she spent a lot on jewellery and fine wines.

I agree it’s an astonishing amount of money and highly questionable as to where it came for seeing as her husband is locked up for fraud.

Harrods sell art and jewellery so she could have bought single items costing hundreds of thousands on top of small purchases.

god my little flat would get cluttered right up.....

Sorry I’m thick and see that you did say it was the equivalent of £4K per day. Not enough coffee for me it seems 😂

My outrage is that she shopped at Harrods, which is the height of naff.

She wasn't buying these good for herself. She was using Harrods to launder the money (is my guess).

Buy item, sell item = clean money. Even if you lose 50% of the item's value in the resale, it doesn't matter because the money was ill gotten to start with so you're still 50% better off than you were before.

Fair play, she’s my kind of lady!

I’ve got money and I spend it, life is for living.

Some people have always had more than others no mater how far back in history you go!

The point to this story is it wasn’t her money to spend as it looks like her and her dh are maybe nothing more than common criminals as they are bing investigated for money laundering

When I read the full story of the husband and his very dodgy background, I too thought it was about money laundering, done by someone too thick to employ actual lawyers/accountants who would do it more effectively and less traceably. What a ridiculous amount of money for one person to spend even if it was legit.

missbatenburg

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Why do you consider Harrods the height of naff??

It’s the most visited attraction in London and the most famous shop in the world.
And you get amazing customer service.
So why (in your opinion) is it ‘ naff’??

It's just an expensive store for people with money. Nothing 'special' about it really but it provides goods/services at reassuringly expensive prices.

Anyway a great story that ticks all the boxes. Foreigner/non-dom/huge wealth/unexplained funds. She is of course innocent until proven guilty of whatever. Should be easy to show where here money came from assuming she wants to show the money. This is why Abramovitch recently got out of the UK and became an Israeli citizen. No interst into where and how he came into $billions

In this case it’s obvious a piss-poor attempt at money laundering, but the amount doesn’t shock me at all. 4K everyday would be odd, but the equivalent over a decade isn’t surprising. A few pricy pieces of jewellery each year and a new designer wardrobe each season would very easily get you there.

Harrods has sold things like 800k beds and bathtubs, 1.6 million ruby shoes, 8k tea, 10k chocolates, a 50k diamond manicure...that’s obviously the crazier stuff, but point is they sell a lot of extremely expensive items, and people do buy them. I expect quite a few billionaires have spent more than 16 million at Harrods in a hour.