Brunei is a very small country, not to mention a province larger than our country, only one-third the size of a mainland megacity, with a population of only 430,000 people. Just such a small country is complete, whether economic or political, and many developed countries.
The Sultan (King) of Brunei has the largest royal palace in the world, covering an area of 120 hectares with 1788 rooms. Many friends have no concept is it, well, make a comparison: 4 times larger than the Queen's Buckingham Palace, and nearly 500,000 square meters larger than the Forbidden City.
You may think it is incredible, Brunei, which is smaller than Shanghai, why is it rich? With oil and gas!
Brunei is known as the "oil-floating country". The wealth of the Brunei royal family once surpassed that of the Saudi royal family for a year, becoming the richest royal family in the world.
If you think that the king of Brunei is the richest, you really underestimate the strength of the country, and one year, the king's younger brother Jeffrey squeezed out his brother and became the richest man in Brunei. Today, Xiaobian will talk to you about Jeffrey, the Prince of Brunei, whom you don't know.
How proud was the Brunei King's brother Jeffrey
King of Brunei, in fact, the exact name is the Sultan of Brunei, but some friends think that the Sultan is a name, so here the editor uses the king instead. Jeffrey was the king's brother and had a good relationship, so he gave brunei's chancellor of the exchequer to his brother.
Relying on his status as a prince and the trust of his brother, Jeffrey squandered recklessly and lived a dashing life of drunken gold fans. He was no less wealthy than the king's brother. Prince Jeffrey once pulled the king's brother from number one on the wealth list to third.
Jeffrey's real estate is said to have more than 600 mansions, a palace in London alone is worth more than 800 million, bought without blinking; in addition, 17 private jets, dozens of yachts, more than 2,000 cars were purchased, of which 150 Rolls-Royce alone (although it is not as good as his brother's 7,000, but the king's brother is to earn his own money, and the little prince spends his brother's money). Of course, there are also women, it is reported that there are more than 40 long-term lovers alone, aesthetic fatigue, the prince also has to pay for these women to make them into their favorite looks, this hobby is also absolute. Some people calculate that Jeffrey squandered an average of $750,000 (equivalent to more than 5 million yuan) a day, which is still a record in the 90s of the last century, when we felt that it was very rare to have a million yuan around us, and Jeffrey was simply poorer than Jeffrey.
On the king's 50th birthday, he invited Jackson to sing, and when Jeffrey's own birthday, he also invited Jackson to come, and the pomp was bigger than his brother's, and the performance fee alone cost $17 million.
Ordinary people collect gold, but in Jeffrey's place, it is nothing more than decoration of the floor of his house. Even more astonishing, he loves to collect, and incredibly, he has a pen that is as high as $1.3 million. Xiaobian really wants to see this pen!
The thief reached out to the treasury and stole 16 billion unscathed
Sometimes the starting point of others is an end that we ordinary people can't reach in a lifetime. While we were pondering how to make $5 million, Jeffrey was worrying about how to spend $5 million a day. Such a level of consumption could not satisfy his desires, and the little prince spent more and more unreliable money, and extended his thief's hand to the national treasury.
The world's top loser actually took advantage of his position to start taking bribes and exploiting the people, anyway, when the money was not enough, he took it directly from the national treasury, really like himself, he made the royal family wealth his own exclusive cash machine, and spending money was just an interest and action for him.
Until 1997, when the Asian financial crisis broke out, the king's brother decided to support southeast Asian friends, who knew to open the treasury, blindfolded, there was little left, let Jeffrey swallow clean. The king's brother was very angry, the consequences were very serious, and in a fit of anger, he was ready to deal with his brother, but the younger brother was afraid to flee to England and left the mess to his brother.
The king had to sell all the Rolls-Royce cars and luxury yachts and planes his brother had bought, and for this purpose he prepared 21 warehouses for storage, and the catalog of goods reached 60 pages, making it the world's largest auction.
In order to prevent the recurrence of the same mistakes, the Constitution was amended
Jeffrey single-handedly ruined the royal family's reputation, and in order to consolidate his rule, the king directly sued his brother in 2007, and the following year, the British High Court signed an arrest warrant, and Jeffrey put him in prison for life. However, the king's brother did have deep feelings for his brother, and in 2009, the king softened his heart, forgave his brother, and let him return to Brunei and save him from prison. Embezzled 16 billion yuan of public funds, and finally died.
The king also learned from his brother and amended the constitution to give him no special rights, even after making his son Mukhtadi Bila crown prince, not allowing him to drive a luxury car and enter or leave the casino.
Although the king's brother was very disappointed with Jeffrey's behavior and would not let him hold any position, he could also spend the rest of his life with a high royal subsidy. However, his behavior has caused a very bad impact on the royal family, originally Brunei's national welfare treatment is very good, very fond of the king, very supportive of the royal rule, so Jeffrey so tossed, the popular support rate also declined, I don't know how many years of recuperation to regain the peak? This way of watching Game of Thrones is not casually played!