News from Malaysia that local police had seized 72 suitcases stuffed with jewellery, cash and handbags belonging to the former First Lady of Malaysia Rosmah Mansor, as a corruption probe got under way, sent a chill all the way to my desk here in Sydney.

Former Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak with his wife Rosmah Mansor. Credit:AP

You see the former FLOM and I have a little bit of history together, and it involves the much reported $6 billion shopping spree she has been on over the past few years.

Described in recent days as an “obsessive” diamond shopper, while she was FLOM, Mansor collected Hermes Birkin bags, shopped at Harrods in London, Chanel in Hawaii, Saks Fifth Avenue in New York and numerous jewellers in Hong Kong - and, as PS reported, designer frocks in Sydney.

In 2012, PS reported on the FLOM paying a visit to Sydney fashion designer Carl Kapp's boutique. She was so impressed with his designs he later visited her and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in their luxury, $20,000-a-night penthouse suite at the then new The Darling hotel atop Star Casino.