As his Middle Eastern monarchy strained under the weight of regional wars, Arab Spring protests and a flood of refugees, the King of Jordan secretly stockpiled a real estate portfolio of luxury homes from California to London, an investigation by the Star and its international partners has found.
King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein acquired 14 properties abroad worth more than $106 million (U.S.) using some of his 36 shell companies based in secretive tax havens, a cache of newly leaked documents reveal. He did it at a time when Canada and other Western nations were sending billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance to Jordan.
And the man who orchestrated King Abdullah’s obscured offshore asset acquisitions was a former Saskatchewan government accountant.
CBC – Huge ‘Pandora Papers’ leak exposes secret offshore accounts of politicians, celebrities and billionaires
Guardian – Pandora papers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful
I wonder if Justin is getting kickbacks.
