Today's United States can be said to be the United States of Jews, and the financial set was first invented by Jews, and now Wall Street is full of Jews.
But doing business is not the privilege of the Jews, and the Chinese living in Southeast Asia are also well versed in this way, so they are called "the Jews of Southeast Asia".
Among them, an unassuming Chinese man has pursued hundreds of female stars at home and abroad, such as Xiao Yaxuan, and has also hollowed out Malaysia's national treasury.
It can be said that the financial set is clear, he is Jho Low.
Jho Low is of Chinese descent in Malaysia and came to sea from his grandfather's generation.
His grandfather Liu Mingda was also a famous rich man in Guangdong in the last century, doing the business of restaurants, but just like the current epidemic and the impact of the hotel industry, the most needed thing for the restaurant business is stability.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Liu family was naturally affected and began to decline. But Liu Mingda was not willing to watch the accumulated wealth be destroyed in this way. I also heard a friend say that the fields in Thailand are very cheap.
So he thought that during the war, the price of grain must have soared, and going to Thailand to farm might be able to fight a turnaround battle.
So he sold all his property in the country, and the family went to Thailand to start a business.
Sure enough, as he expected, because of the shortage of food during the war, Liu Mingda made a fortune from the war. He also knew that this was certainly not a long-term solution, and when the war was over, the grain business was not so well done. So he started investing in the mineral business.
After selling their assets in Thailand, the family moved to Malaysia. Investing in iron ore has made Liu Mingda earn a lot of money. Also in Malaysia, Jho Low's father, Liu Ford, was born.
It is said that the rich are not more than three generations, the first generation is based on courage and the times to make a fortune, if the descendants are not capable enough, the family's wealth will soon be destroyed.
Liu Mingda knows this truth very well, so he attaches great importance to the education of his son Liu Ford, let Liu Ford go to the United Kingdom to study economics, and then to the United States to take the MBA, Liu Ford returned to Malaysia and then entered the real estate and financial circles, so that the Liu family from a local tycoon, became a famous local capitalist.
The Liu family has been stable for two generations, and then they want to have a relationship with the government, and their backs are against the trees to cool off.
And this hope was pinned on Jho Low.
Jho Low grew up in an aristocratic school, and Liu Ford's purpose was simple, that is, to change his son's social circle. It turned out that the Liu family was only "rich", and then they wanted to be "expensive" and become a real "rich family".
Liu Ford guessed his son's story, but did not guess the end of his story.
At school, Jho Low met the man who changed his life, Riza, the son of Malaysia's minister of defence.
After knowing Riza's identity, Jho Low always intentionally or unintentionally told Riza how rich his family was, and every time he went out to eat, drink and have fun, he also rushed to pay the bill, which made Riza have a good feeling for Jho Low, and the two became good friends.
But with the connections of the Malaysian minister of defense, Liu Furt felt that it was not enough, and sent him to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, which is known as the "world's 2 first business school".
Trump, Musk and Buffett all graduated from here.
After coming to the United States, Jho Low quickly discovered a way to make friends with local customs and efficiency - to have a party.
Jho Low often holds parties in luxury villas, and as long as he is a student of business school, he comes for free.
He held parties, not once or twice, but on a regular basis, which had become a reserved program in the school at that time, and when the day came, the students knew that it was time to go to Jho Low's party.
It is estimated that Jho Low spends more than 250,000 yuan a month on partying alone.
So willing to pay blood, soon Jho Low caught a big fish - the princes of the Middle East royal family.
Although the princes have a noble status, they also have a lot of discipline, and this time they come out to study to have the opportunity to play like this. The nature of coming and going is mixed with Jho Low, who plays with them.
So after graduation, the princes also invited Jho Low to his home in the Middle East to attend the graduation feast. It was at this time that Jho Low became acquainted with the assistant of the UAE royal family, Otebas.
Despite his title as assistant, Otaba was actually very influential, running a national fund for the Middle Eastern royal family to make foreign investments. For Jho Low, there is no better network than this.
When Jho Low returned home in 2005, he found that the father of his former friend Riza was now the deputy prime minister of Malaysia.
At this point, the actors are all in place, and Jho Low is going to start the game.
The Malaysian government was planning a development zone called Iskandar.
Jho Low knew that his chance had come.
Although the Liu family is doing real estate development, the investment in this project is too big, and the Liu family cannot eat it at all.
So Jho Low ran abroad to register a leather bag company, and there was no penny on the account, it was an empty shell.
He took half of the company's stake in the company and divided it among Malaysian government officials, most notably Riza. In order to tie Riza and themselves to a boat.
But an empty shell, how to divide the money? The Middle Eastern royal assistant Otaba made an appearance.
After leveling up Malaysian officials, Jho Low sent a phone call to Otaba, saying that his family was now building Malaysia's largest economic center, and was there any interest in investing?
When Otaba heard this, he felt that this was an opportunity for his own merit, and if this investment became successful, his status in the royal family would definitely rise. He sent someone to Malaysia to investigate.
But the project has not been skimmed, what can Jho Low let the people of Otaiba examine? When The delegation of Otaiba came, Jho Low bragged to them about how good the project was during the day, and took them to experience the nightlife of Malaysia at night.
The cannibalistic mouth is soft, and the delegation returned to China after being warmly entertained by Jover Low, saying that the project is really good and can make a lot of money, in fact, they did not see anything.
In this way, Otaba invested $500 million in the project.
After the money arrived, Jho Low did not immediately use the money to do the project, but first shared the booty.
He exploited loopholes through a series of operations, splitting half of his investment money among himself and Malaysian officials.
Then there is the investment in the project.
Seeing that they had indeed received a large sum of money, Riza and his deputy prime minister's father also completely trusted Jho Low's financial resources and continued to deepen their cooperation with him.
In 2009, Riza's father was successfully elected as the prime minister of Malaysia, and Jho Low naturally followed the chicken dog to ascend to heaven and fished a pot full of pots.
It was also at this time that Jho Low began to frantically pursue female stars from all over the world.
Jho Low's first public girlfriend was the famous American star Lindsay Rohan, who was once popular because of the movie "Mean Girl".
Lindsay is a well-known "drunkard" in the circle, so Jho Low gave her 23 bottles of French crystal champagne at her 23rd birthday party, which is said to be worth $1.15 million.
Faced with Jho Low, who has the "ability to banknote", Lindsay soon fell, but the relationship between the two people lasted only 1 year.
Then Jho Low began to pursue Paris Hilton in a high-profile manner.
Paris is not only a star, but also a thousand gold for Hilton Hotels Group. Paris himself was a rich man, but he was still caught up in Jho Low's ability to pay money.
Paris had met many rich people, but Ken had spent so much money for her, and Jho Low was the first.
In order to pursue Paris, Jho Low threw 12 parties over a 2-month period, reveling every week, and the cost of each one was more than $1 million, not including the cost of drinks.
Not only American stars, but also domestic stars are also hunting targets for Jho Low. He had chased Xiao Yaxuan.
He bought the major pages of the Taiwan Daily for Xiao Yaxuan to confess Xiao Yaxuan, and spent tens of millions of dollars to arrange fireworks, and also sent Xiao Yaxuan's million-dollar jewelry by helicopter.
Although Xiao Yaxuan finally rejected him, he was also out of the limelight. Let the people in China know that Jho Low is a local tycoon who has spent thousands of dollars.
In addition, Jho Low also has ambiguous relationships with a number of famous actresses.
Such a high-profile and mercurial Low tezo naturally attracted the attention of the police. Because there are so many properties disclosed by the Jho Low family, it is impossible to support such profligacy as Jho Low, and he must have other sources of income that cannot be disclosed.
So both the United States and Malaysia began investigating Jho Low.
Jho Low is already a public figure, and with such a high profile, it is not difficult to check on him. Police quickly identified the source of his funding, the "Malaysian Sovereign Fund.".
The so-called fund was set up after Riza's father, Bangina, took office, and the manager of the fund was Jho Low, and it was at this point in time that Jho Low began to spend a lot of money.
This fund is nominally used to improve the lives of Malaysians, but in reality the foundation does nothing but launder money.
From 2009 to 2011, in less than three years, he amassed $2 billion, all of which went into the pockets of Jho Low and Banjina.
In fact, both the Malaysian people and the police have long known about this matter, but because Banjina is the prime minister of Malaysia, no one has dared to really investigate this matter.
It wasn't until 2018, when Banjina lost his bid for a new prime minister, that the matter was really exposed.
Only then did I realize that things were much more than money laundering and embezzlement. Over the years, Bangina and Jho Low have transferred at least $3.5 billion through the foundation, not only that, but also $13 billion in foreign debt, and Malaysia's "treasury" has been hollowed out by these two people.
Because this case involved not only a Malaysian company, but also Singapore, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Therefore, after the East Window incident, Low Tezo became a major criminal wanted by the 4 countries. The Banjina family was also arrested and imprisoned.
The protection of officials and businessmen is something that China has been strictly guarding against since ancient times. Once power and money get too close, they will inevitably be corrupted.
Putting rights in cages is the most responsible thing to the people.