Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 387: The Dispute Between Saudi Arabia and Thailand

Chapter 387: Chapter 387: The Dispute Between Saudi Arabia and Thailand

Since 1989, the Middle Eastern country Saudi Arabia suddenly announced the severance of all diplomatic relations with the Southeast Asian country Thailand.

The diplomatic level between the two parties was directly downgraded from ambassador to chargé d’affaires.

Of the 250,000 Thais working in Saudi Arabia, except for a few thousand who were given special exemption, the rest were all expelled from Saudi Arabia.

Besides that, Saudi Arabia also withdrew all its investments in Thailand and issued a ban on tourism to Thailand within the country.

Honestly speaking, reaching this point, the relationship between the two countries was basically no different from a declaration of war.

The reason they didn’t actually fight is mainly because the two countries do not share a border and are significantly distant from each other; even engaging in a naval battle would require passing through several countries.

The cause of this outcome was due to a blue diamond.

That’s right, it is the same blue diamond found by Chen Yiyang in Thailand, then carried back to Lin’an and now placed in front of Yang Chengru.

A 50-carat flawless blue diamond embodying the dignity of the Saudi royal family, tainted by the lives of several diplomats and agents.

Things started from 1989.

At that time, Thailand had a large number of laborers working in Saudi Arabia.

Because they were cheap and effective, even some members of the Saudi royal family liked to hire these Thais.

One of the Thai laborers, named Jiang Kailai Tachamon, managed to enter the palace of the then Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as a cleaner.

This Jiang Kailai was not an honest and upright person. His love for gambling caused him to amass a large debt instead of earning money during his years working in Saudi Arabia.

This led Jiang Kailai to entertain a malignant idea.

After all, there was an abundance of valuable items in the Crown Prince’s palace.

Not to mention, this Crown Prince had a penchant for traveling and rarely returned to his palace to rest.

After he understood the palace’s security and the Crown Prince’s bedroom situation,

Jiang Kailai discovered that the Crown Prince’s bedroom safe was usually unlocked.

So, during one of the Crown Prince couple’s vacations, Jiang Kailai sneaked into their bedroom one night, opened the unlocked safe, and emptied it of its jewels and watches.

Afterwards, he mixed these jewels into three large wooden boxes stuffed with luggage and shipped them to Thailand via international courier.

Back then, Thailand’s customs was notorious for its corruption, and Jiang Kailai enclosed a cash-filled envelope with the luggage.

The envelope hinted that the boxes contained sex toys purchased abroad, intended for sale domestically, and requested customs clearance.

So customs only conducted a basic inspection before allowing the boxes to enter the country.

After confirming that the boxes he sent had reached his home in Thailand, Jiang Kailai bought a plane ticket and returned to Thailand while the Crown Prince couple was still away.

In Thailand, Jiang Kailai immediately contacted numerous jewelers to sell off all the jewels he had brought for a ridiculously low price.

How low? A jewelry necklace worth about thirty to forty thousand US Dollars back then, he sold for only thirty to forty US Dollars.

As for the invaluable diamonds and rubies, they were sold in a package deal, items worth millions of US Dollars together didn’t fetch even a hundred US Dollars.

Clearly, this guy had no understanding of the value of jewels.

He thought he had just stolen some things of slight value, and the Crown Prince in the Middle East would drop the issue since they couldn’t find him.

However, what he didn’t realize was the items he stole—besides the incredibly valuable 50-carat blue diamond mixed in—contained jewels worth over forty million US Dollars total!

Forty million US Dollars in 1989, which is equivalent to about four hundred million US Dollars today.

Not to mention, inside was a flawless blue diamond that was priceless.

So when the Crown Prince returned home, he immediately informed the Thai government, hoping Thailand would help recover the stolen jewels.

In Thailand, they also valued their relationship with Saudi Arabia and immediately dispatched police after receiving the notice.

The person was quickly caught, and about eighty percent of the sold jewels were recovered.

Thailand then prepared to have the Saudi royal family send someone to retrieve the items.

Initially, the matter could have concluded there more or less.

But shockingly, when the Saudi royal family’s people arrived in Thailand to receive the items, they discovered.

In the batch of jewels handed over by the Thai government, not only was the 50-carat blue diamond missing,

but most of the other jewels were fake pieces made of glass and plastic!

This incident wasn’t very harmful but extremely insulting.

However, due to the relationship between the two countries, the Middle East royal family exercised restraint, telling the Thai government that they didn’t care about the rest, as long as the 50-carat blue diamond was returned.

Despite the Saudi royal family’s statement, and Thailand creating a special investigation team,

the matter reached a standstill there, with Thailand dragging its feet for a long time making no progress.

So Saudi Arabia directly sent several experienced diplomats to oversee Thailand’s handling of the matter.

Additionally, they hired an agent to secretly enter Thailand to investigate the issue.

Then.

Within less than a month, four Saudi diplomats investigating this matter died in Thailand.

One of them was even shot in the head in broad daylight in a busy street, and Thailand attributed the death to a personal dispute.

Furthermore, the jeweler who bought the most jewels from Jiang Kailai at that time completely vanished without a trace during this period.

The Saudi royal family, left with no options, requested a friendly CIA agent from the United States to enter Thailand to investigate.

Then.

After the CIA agent entered Thailand and briefly understood the complex ties of interest behind this case, they immediately fled back home, unwilling to further entangle themselves in this mess.

Thus, the exasperated Saudi royal family eventually chose to completely cut off diplomatic ties with the Thai government.

As a result, Thailand suffered losses in its tourism industry, labor industry, and investment industry, totaling several hundred billion US Dollars.

This means that the blue diamond’s current value, besides its inherent worth, is also laden with additional value worth several hundred billion US Dollars.

Yang Chengru glanced at Chen Yiyang and then at the diamond.

"Why are you looking at me? I didn’t mean for this either." Chen Yiyang shrugged, "I just randomly rented a warehouse, reached out randomly, and ended up finding this blue diamond."

"Have you had someone verify if this is indeed the one the Saudi royal family lost back then?"

"Definitely authentic." Chen Yiyang nodded.

After all, it was certified by the system. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Moreover, even if the system hadn’t certified it, just bringing in a professional appraiser would let them understand the background of this 50-carat blue diamond upon seeing its weight.

It’s one of the very few things in the world that simply cannot be forged.

It’s impossible for a new flawless blue 50-carat diamond to appear out of nowhere.