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Vashi has cheated investors, staff and the taxman, but the search party is surprisingly small.

Aguilar thinks often of young, inexperienced artists who didn’t have the privilege of being in a family of savvy entertainers — those who run the biggest risk of getting cheated out of royalties.

And some followers, like Pasalic, may end up feeling cheated and confused.

"I feel devastated for her and I feel cheated out of knowing Alistair for longer. But we are going to make the most of the time we have left," she says.

In the authorities’ war against perceived subversives, it would be years before it became clear how brazenly they had cheated.