Pictures show designer dresses and handbags bought by student, 21, who went on four-year shopping blitz when bank accidentally gave her £2.4 million
Label lover splashed £1.7m on a Christian Dior outfit, dozens of designer bags and a luxury Chanel pillow
A SYDNEY student has revealed how she blew millions on designer gear after her bank accidentally gave her £2.4 million.
Christin Jia Zin Lee, 21, splashed out on a Christian Dior outfit and dozens of designer handbags after the gaffe by banking group Westpac.
Pictures released by the New South Wales Supreme Court reveal the luxury items that bank lawyers allegedly found when they searched her property.
She was arrested earlier this month after the bank realised what she had done.
She was just 17 when the bank accidentally increased her overdraft limit to £2.4 million.
Independent solicitor Cate Nagy said in an affidavit: “There were a large number of handbags, items of clothing, shoes, shopping bags and boxes scattered on the floor ad on tables, chairs and a sofa around the room.”
Lawyers said that they found stacks of designer handbags including Chanel, Dior and Hermes.
Many of the bags had certificates of authenticity with them.
In total, 24 items were seized by authorities.
The label loving chemical engineering student has spent $220,000 in one day at the Sydney Christian Dior Shop.
The student splashed out on 13 Hermes scarves and a Chanel pillow valued at $1,350.
Lee, who is from Malaysia, was arrested at Sydney Airport while trying to board a flight home in May.
She claims that she thought that her parents had given her the money.
The student told a bank investigator: “I bought clothes, shoes, lots of handbags.
“Christian Dior and other clothes shops. I have $4,000 in cash left.”
When the investigator told her she would need to pay the money back, she said: “My mother is coming over to visit me in June and will give the bank a cheque.
According to the student, her parents “are not very happy with [her]”.
She is expected to appear at Waverly Local Court tomorrow.
Lee lives with her boyfriend in north-west Sydney, who she had kept in the dark about her spending habits.
He told reporters that he had “no idea” that she had that amount of money.
He said that Lee was a “good girl” and didn’t know about the trouble she was in until she called him after she was arrested.
When Lee realised that police were looking for her, she tried to get an emergency visa to Malaysia so she could skip the country.
But authorities caught up with her as she made her escape on 4 May.
She was granted bail but is banned from entering an international airport and has to report to police twice a day.
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