PM Prayut Chan-o-cha visited Saudi Arabia earlier this week, and Thailand and Saudi mended relations they broke 33 years ago following the Blue Diamond Affair in 1989 where a Thai cleaner in Saudi’s royal palace stole diamonds worth US$20 million from the prince. The next year, three Saudi diplomats and a businessman making an attempt to recuperate the gems have been killed. According to the state-run Saudi Press Agency, Prayut gave “his sincere regrets for the tragic circumstances that took place in Thailand between 1989 to 1990.”
Back in 1989, the Saudi prince and his wife had been on holiday for three months when the cleaner started to hide the diamonds in places around the palace the place he knew no one else would find them. Then, over a month, he slowly moved them into a cargo supply that he ultimately sent to Thailand. Before the palace might discover out the cleaner had stolen the diamonds, he had already fled back to Thailand.
To get the diamonds via customs, the cleaner left an envelope with cash for bribery in his cargo, and a observe saying he had pornographic materials within the cargo and most popular that authorities not search it. Thai authorities took the bribe. The cleaner saved a variety of the diamonds, and offered others. But only one month later, Thai police arrested the cleaner in his house after Saudi authorities alerted them. Authorities ultimately retrieved the diamonds.
But Saudi officials stated 80% of the diamonds have been lacking, and many that had been returned were faux. Then a photograph was revealed of a senior Thai official sporting a necklace that seemed eerily similar to one of many lacking Saudi necklaces.
In ติดตั้งโซล่าเซลล์ใกล้ฉัน , Thai gunmen shot and killed three Saudi diplomats in Bangkok who had been trying to find the diamonds. A Saudi businessman who travelled to Thailand to investigate the case of the missing diamonds was kidnapped. His physique was never found, and plenty of suspect he was killed. An extraordinarily uncommon blue diamond was by no means recovered..