"What? All three of them were killed? And what about Aruvali? The Saudi king asked in shock.
"Aruwali has been missing for a month, has not been in contact, and the situation is not optimistic! The Thai military and police are estimated to be mischievous and untrustworthy devils," Mohammed, a Saudi diplomat, said angrily.
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The above conversation is that after the Saudi royal family was stolen 30 kilograms of Saudi jewelry by Thai maid Jiang Kolai, let the Thai police help solve the case together, and the case was solved, and only some jewelry and most of them were fakes, the Saudi king again sent the businessman Aruwali and three other diplomats to Thailand to investigate the truth, and all three diplomats were killed, but the businessman Aruwali has not been heard from so far, so what happened?
Jewelry was stolen
One day in 1989, the Saudi royal family needed to recruit a group of servants for the royal family, and after the job postings were sent, all the applicants were foreigners, and none of the local Saudi citizens came to apply.
It is also easy to understand that Saudi people can receive a subsidy of 1,500 Saudi dollars (about 3,000 yuan) per person per month even if they do not work, plus medical treatment and school, they do not have to spend money, who has enough to eat, to work.
Therefore, there is no way, the royal family can only allow foreigners to come to Saudi Arabia to work.
Because it could not recruit locals, the Saudi royal family had to hire foreign workers, including Jiangkole from Thailand. Tai Chamon. After Jiangkole was placed in the palace, his job duties were mainly to clean the palace of Saudi Grand Prince Faisal.
Prince Faisar is probably too wealthy, and many of the boxes and safes where jewelry is placed are often unlocked, but he cannot be blamed for this, after all, the kingdom is safe and has never heard of theft. In addition, this is the royal palace, guarded by layers of guards, who dares to come in and steal, so he has no defense, valuables are sometimes placed on the table.
And because of the large population in his family and no economic resources, Jiang Kole was so poor that he could hardly eat, and he heard relatives and friends say that the Kingdom was "full of gold" with high salaries and no worries about food and clothing, so he begged his relatives for a long time to come to Saudi Arabia.
It was also his luck that he heard that the Saudi royal family was going to recruit a maid, and without saying a word, he immediately ran to the interview, because he was strong and clean-looking, so he was lucky to be hired.
He went in and out of this splendid palace every day, and often saw Prince Faisar fiddling with valuable jewelry, he was just like "Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden", he was curious about what he saw, and he was even more coveted by those precious jewels, but he was still very hesitant to steal it.
Jiang Kelai worked hard in the palace while enduring the temptation, because there were many servants in the palace, and the area he was responsible for was not large, so the work was relatively leisurely, and there was a lot of leisure time every day, not much, he not only mixed with the people in the palace but also met a lot of people outside, usually when not working, he would play cards with other people's homes, and gamble pleasantly, but slowly gambling became bigger and bigger, and the gambling addiction became heavier and heavier.
He himself knew that gambling was not good, but he couldn't control himself, and as a result, the "crotch" of a losing card was almost lost by him.
What if there is no gambling capital, his eyes are fixed on Prince Faisal's jewelry, he first stole one or two small pieces of jewelry to sell to pay off gambling debts, and the next day went to work a little timidly, but the prince did not find anything abnormal.
Jiang Kelai saw that the prince didn't care at all and didn't pay attention to those jewels, so he became more and more bold, and secretly took it several times, each time looking for small pieces that were not easy to find.
On this day, Faisar called all the servants together, and Jiang Kole thought that the East Window incident had happened, his face was pale, and his body trembled, but he did not expect that the prince only informed them that he was going on vacation for a month, and would take a few people with him, and some of them would stay to watch over the palace.
Jiang Kelai, who had relaxed, seemed to have been drained of his whole body's strength, and he was the part of the people who were left behind.
After the prince left, he pondered that he had already done what he had stolen, and if he continued to stay here, he would be discovered sooner or later, and it would be better to return to China and hide directly while the prince was not doing a big job.
He went to the market to buy some tape, and the next day, while cleaning the prince's room, he wrapped the prince's jewelry around himself, some at a time, and he carried it for several days, packing it in boxes and shipping it to Thailand while moving, while also completing the resignation procedures.
When the consignment box was inspected, he bribed the inspector to allow the box to be transported back to Thailand smoothly. After completing the resignation formalities, he sold some jewelry on the Saudi black market for some cash and quickly bought a ticket back to Thailand.
After Prince Faisar returned from vacation, he saw that the door of the safe was not closed, and suspiciously went over to check his four safes, only to find that there was a lot of jewelry missing, so he called the butler, took the list and counted it, and found that there were 30 kilograms of jewelry missing, including the royal family heirloom 50-carat large blue diamond.
Prince Faisar immediately reported it to the king, and at the same time he called all the palace guards together for them to investigate.
solve a case
The guards were also fast, and their target was soon targeted at Jiang Colai, a cleaner who had just left his job, but because there was no evidence, they could not issue an arrest warrant, so they expanded their search to the jewelry recycling market and the black market.
Sure enough, they found some jewelry sold by Jiangkolai, but the number was not much, and later it was found that Jiangkole had returned to Thailand at this time, and the Saudi royal family was beyond their reach, and they had to hand over the task to the Saudi Foreign Ministry, and let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs contact the senior leaders on the Thai side and ask them to help solve the case.
After Jiang Kole returned to Thailand, he actually worried, where is it better to hide so many jewelry, and he can't sell it right away, and selling too much at once will attract official attention.
So, he found two places that he thought were safe, dug a pit, hid two boxes of jewelry in the ground, and hid one box in one place, thinking that if the East Window incident happened, he would only confess a part, so that he could still get a part of it by handing in some of it.
There was also a box that he had sold very little in Saudi Arabia and some more when he returned to Thailand, but not much, mainly for fear of attracting attention.
After a period of silence, Jiang Kelai saw that no one was looking for him, he was slightly relieved, sitting on so many jewels, he was actually very nervous, often insomnia at night, and even couldn't sleep all night, always afraid that he would be arrested one day.
His fears were not unfounded, and the Thai police quickly went straight to Jiang Kolai's hometown after receiving orders from their superiors to arrest Jiang Kolai.
In January 1990, when Mr. Jiang was sitting in the interrogation room, he was even relieved to finally arrive, and it was not long before he confessed and took the police to tell the police about the large half box of jewelry in the house and a place where the jewelry was buried. Finally, he was told that he would be sentenced to two years in prison for the theft.
Jiang Kelai thought to himself: "Two years is two years, there is always a price, I still have a box of jewelry for myself to squander after two years come out."
However, Jiang Kole did not stay happy in prison for long, and was once again pulled by the police to the interrogation room.
At the same time, in front of him was a list of jewelry newly transmitted from the Saudi side, and Jiang Kole was dumbfounded, thinking that Prince Faisar usually did not care about jewelry, and there was even a list of such things.
Jiang Kelai struggled in his heart, he said that the others had been sold, and the gambling debts had been paid, plus the few days he had returned had been spent, and the police asked him who he had sold it to and where he had sold it, and recovered the jewelry according to the clues he provided, and the result was a pitiful amount.
They actually didn't believe that Jiang Kelai had sold them all, so they planned to use special means to force him to confess to Jiang Kelai, and Jiang Kelai finally had to hand over the last jewelry.
After checking the list, the police found that more than 80% of the jewelry had been recovered, so they did not embarrass Jiang Kolai anymore, but let him stay in prison honestly.
In February 1990, the Thai Foreign Ministry contacted Saudi Foreign Minister Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed to say that most of the jewelry had been recovered and that they planned to hold a return ceremony a month later, when the Saudis could send someone to retrieve the jewelry.
The Saudi royal family is willing to accept 80% of the jewelry when they learn that they can get it back, and they will no longer pursue it, they have money, for the sake of such cooperation in Thailand, they have to spare people and spare people, so they don't care too much.
Fast forward to March 1990, when the Thai police, Saudi police and Saudi jewelry appraisers gathered, and the Thai side placed the jewelry on the table for the Saudi jewelry appraiser to examine, then the Saudi police took it and escorted it to Saudi Arabia.
The result is not known, as soon as I check it, I am shocked, the 50-carat blue diamond that has been passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors of the Saudi royal family is not in it, and this pile of returned jewelry turned out to be a bunch of fakes.
The Saudi police and diplomats did not accept the pile of fakes, but quickly contacted the Saudi royal family to explain the situation, and the Saudi royal family was naturally very angry. They asked the Thai side for an explanation, and the Thai police put the responsibility on Jiang Kolai, they said that these were obtained from Jiang Kolai, and they returned all of them before they could be disassembled.
As a result, Jiang Kole was interrogated again, this time with the presence of the Saudi police, although Jiang Kole strongly denied it, but who would believe him?
However, he did not admit that there was no way, and the matter was closed, because the Saudi side had money, in order not to affect the relationship between the two countries, so it did not continue to delve into it.
Things are strange
The theft of jewelry was like a small episode, which passed quickly, no one mentioned it again, and the relationship between the two countries was not affected in any way.
However, after some time, the diplomatic officer of the Saudi office in Thailand discovered that the wife of a high-ranking Thai official was wearing suspicious jewelry on her hands and neck when attending a public event, and he had seen the jewelry list and fakes at the return ceremony, and wondered that it was impossible for someone with such a status to bring a fake with him.
So, the staff of the Saudi Foreign Ministry, who found the trick, immediately contacted Mohammed and explained the situation to the other party.
Mohammed knew that things were not that simple, but when it came to the friendly diplomatic relations between the two countries, he could not make his own decisions, so he contacted the royal family.
Subsequently, Aruwali and three diplomats were secretly sent to Thailand to begin covert visits.
After some investigation, it was found that not only one family member of a high-ranking official owned the jewelry, but also several other high-level family members, and after they transmitted the news back to China, they wanted to further investigate and collect evidence, but when they just had strong evidence and were about to return to China, an accident happened, they were attacked by unknown gunmen, two people were killed at the same time, and another person was shot in the back while running less than 100 meters.
And the businessman Aruvali had been unable to contact him a month earlier. This is where the dialogue between Mohammed and the king begins.
The Saudis pointed the finger at the Thai police, saying they were murderers and stolen goods.
The Thai police vehemently denied it, saying that Thai gangsters were responsible, but this explanation was not recognized by Saudi officials.
Because a month earlier, Aruwali had dictated the news to the three diplomats and told them that he felt that someone was going to harm him. After that meeting, the three diplomats lost contact with Aruwali and continued to search for evidence after the news was transmitted back home.
The Saudi king was very angry and felt that Thailand had fooled him, so he downgraded the diplomatic relations between the two countries to the level of chargé d'affaires, and Saudi Arabia could have allowed Thailand to go to Saudi Arabia to work, diplomatic relations were downgraded, Thais in Saudi Arabia were sent home, and Thailand lost 14 billion US dollars in three years, which is worth much more than that batch of jewels.
Because of the huge losses, the Thai government had to pay attention, so higher-level national leaders joined in the thorough investigation of the matter, and many senior police officials involved in the matter were also killed, and some even died because of this matter.
After Jiang Kelai was released from prison, because the incident was too big, he was afraid of losing his life and ran to become a monk, but three years after he became a monk, he ran back to the countryside to farm low-key.
Saudi Arabia and Thailand have also remained frozen for decades because of the "Blue Diamond Case".
It was not until October 2016 that diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level were restored under the mediation of Bahrain, but Saudi concerns were not completely allayed.
They have always had a psychological shadow about hiring Thais, and by 2019, the total number of Thais working in Saudi Arabia was less than 10,000.
Thailand has ruined decades of diplomatic relations and economic ties because of a small profit in front of it, and the loss is really not something that this jewel can make up for.
Resources:
World Odd Case Saudi Palace Gemstone Theft Trace, Chongqing and the World, 1998-02-15 Journal
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Author: Wish
Editor: Lin Yan