Brunei ruler conned out of RM6.8b: Police
JAKARTA, May 31 - The Brunei Sultan has lost 20 billion rupiah (RM6.8 billion) to a group of Indonesian con men posing as officials from Indonesia’s presidential palace, according to police here.
Commissioner General Susno Duadji, the chief of the National Police criminal investigation unit, put an end to days of speculation by confirming over the weekend that the victim was indeed Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
Gen Susno added at the media briefing that the con men did not speak directly to Sultan Bolkiah.
“They talked only with the Sultan’s adjutant, who was called from Jakarta,” he said.
Source: The Malaysian Insider
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How is it that His Highness can be conned? He is not a naive businessman. The Indonesians must have pose a carrot that is too hard not to believe it will be true.
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10 comments:
I think the MalaysianInsider has got the conversion rate wrong. It should be RM6.8 million instead of billion.
maybe they promised him a free pass to goyang gerudi concert
Mav,the Sultan's adjutant conned the HRH NOT the Indonesians!- Mmudahlupa
Did the conmen promise HRH a group of Minah Ronggengs from Bali?
"...they asked for money, ostensibly to help fund election campaigns...."
This statement is darker than loosing the money. The implication that the Sultan is fiddling with a neighbor's political fate is not at all welcome. Even under ASEAN's mantra of non interference.
And he gave what? Bagfuls?
That is called sharing the wealth
Redistribution of wealth resources...
he can afford it, no big deal.
6.8 millions is nothing to him, i think he didn't even look through the details of what he is buying.
don't forget that this is the guy with a solid gold toilet bowl and basin in a Boeing 737 aircraft. Mave reported this sometime ago. The gold tap itself would have cost more than 6.8 million.
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