There is a saying in mainland folklore: Rejuvenating a family is like picking up the soil with a needle, and a loser is like a wave hitting the sand. In the case of the loser, there are countless vivid examples all over the world.
The protagonist of today's story is definitely the best of the losers, he can single-handedly put his brother from the top of the richest list to the third, and the money he squandered is exaggerated to tens of billions of dollars.
He was Prince Jeffrey Bolkiah from Brunei.
Brunei is small, but it has made a lot of money with its abundant natural gas and oil reserves. In Brunei, "getting rich" is never a lie, and Brunei Sultan Haji also secured the throne of the world's richest man in the 1990s.
With such a huge fortune, Haji chose to hand over financial power to his brother Jeffrey. After all, the fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders, so the fat is poor, handed over to others, Haji is really not very assured.
To his own brother, Haji was not stingy at all. Jeffrey has a lot of assets, driving a yacht, flying, that is, raising African lions as pets, and it is also appropriate and enough.
However, the human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant, and as life becomes more and more luxurious, Jeffrey's desire is also getting bigger and bigger. In order to satisfy his own selfish desires, he simply used his position and power to secretly embezzle $16 billion from his own treasury behind his brother's back.
Many people may wonder: Why does he want so much money? Is it really spent?
Saying he can't spend the money is a bit of a small underestimation, and during his tenure as chancellor of the exchequer, he spent an average of $750,000 a day on shopping.
After reading his consumption list, everyone understood: he liked to buy a house too much, and he regarded buying a house as a toy, and he signed a house title deed at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles and the Athenaeum Plaza Hotel in the romantic French capital.
(Writing this, I have an immature idea.) Jeffrey's vision is still poor, but it was the 90s, if he had come to China to buy real estate, I am afraid that he would have already reached the deficit of the national treasury and had a lot of surplus. ）
Some people are heavy and not heavy, some people are not heavy, since ancient times fish and bear paws can not be both, but Jeffrey just wants everything.
Moreover, he is like a small child, seeing the scenery of others, he is also envious and yearning, and he is going to reach into his pocket, when he sees his brother Haji has nearly ten thousand gorgeous luxury cars, his heart is deeply clenched, and he has since embarked on a road of no return to buying a car.
Subsequently, he bought a large number of Bentleys, Rolls-Royces, Ferraris, etc. in a short period of time, about one-third of his brother's.
With so many cars parked there, even if he took turns pampering every day, he couldn't drive over. Therefore, many of his cars have been dusted, staying in the garage quietly dusty, the metal on the steering wheel and safety bolts has been rusted, and the paint of the luxury car itself is extremely beautiful, and it has become dull, not to mention that some of the front wheels have leaked.
Whatever it was, Jeffrey wanted an absolute numerical advantage, and he extended his monetary extravagance to marriage, married 4 wives, and chartered more than 40 young and beautiful dust girls, and raised them all in his private palace for his own enjoyment.
The ancient Sui Emperor raised a number of beautiful women in the harem, there are Yuan Bao'er with ice muscles and jade bones, Zhu Gui'er with a strong temperament, on summer nights, he will take these beautiful women to party by the palace lake, hang night pearls in the treetops, burn fat like flowing water, make the night as bright as a white night, and Jeffrey is like a modern version of the Sui Emperor, and the interesting life of these beauties, only unthinkable, nothing can be done.
Jeffrey's wealth is not his own after all, but stolen from the country, and all his BMW beauties are based on a nihilistic wealth, and once this nihilistic foundation collapses, then they will be completely overturned in an instant.
Jeffrey's good days of drunkenness didn't last long. Under his profligacy, Sudan's wealth also began to shrink, directly from the world's richest man to the third place.
When my brother's immediate wonders, where did my money go?
So he began to check the accounts and count his property, only to find that his treasury had been reduced by more than half, and Jeffrey's affair was revealed.
In 2000, Jeffrey began to return his personal property to the country, and his more than 500 properties, 9 airplanes, various famous paintings, jewelry, and watches with high collection value were confiscated and placed at a grand auction.
However, the proceeds from the auction of these properties can no longer recover all the losses.
Seeing that the situation could not be cleaned up, Jeffrey fled in a hurry, and the Sultan only wanted Jeffrey to spit out all the gold bones he had eaten, so he sued him in the British court, and in addition to demanding compensation for his losses, he also issued a wanted warrant for him.
Perhaps when his brother's heart was soft, to this day, Jeffrey has not gone to jail. Moreover, before the East Window incident, he had already hidden a lot of asset transfers.
That is to say, even though Jeffrey is now like a street rat, he still lives a much better life than most ordinary people. The only regret is probably the bad reputation and the inability to return home.
However, there is an old saying on the mainland, called "it is easy to enter luxury from thrift, and it is difficult to enter from luxury to thrift." Jeffrey lived so dashingly in the first half of his life, accustomed to the beauty of the fragrant car, the front and back of the hug, will he really be satisfied with the status quo and accept the less luxurious "ordinary life"?