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Sunday, 14 April 2019

Sultan of Brunei, who passed anti-LGBT laws, owns slew of luxury UK properties

Hassanal Bolkiah, who believes gay people should be stoned to death, is assisted by leading City auditing firms

The architect of brutal new laws mandating the stoning to death of gay people in Brunei enjoys billions of pounds of property wealth in the UK, shares in a leading tech fund, and assistance from City auditing firms, a Guardian analysis has found.

Hassanal Bolkiah, the sultan of Brunei, owns a slew of properties in the super-rich enclaves of Kensington and Ascot, including luxury hotels and polo parks. One property alone could be worth an estimated £500m in rent each year.

Related: ‘It’s dangerous to go out now’: young, gay and scared in Brunei

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from Islam | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2Dbl9Se

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