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when we talk about famous heists maybe our minds go to the antwerp diamond robbery of 2003 or the
brazen lufthansa heist at jfk in 978. we may even remember the isabelle stewart gardner museum theft
of 1990. not only did these heists garner headline news but some of them were adapted into movies or
subplots think goodfellas which was partly based on the lufthansa heist but others may not have
made headlines or had movies made based on them but once you hear the details you might wonder
how did the screenwriters sleep on those stories the blue diamond affair is one of those diplomatic
disasters police corruption fraud kidnapping assassinations and murder all followed in its
wake with the whole thing still being unresolved to this day here now today the story of the blue
diamond affair so the entire affair started simple enough thai janitor and gardner krienkai techemong
worked in the palace home of a saudi prince faisal been fired at the time crian cry was struggling
with gambling debts that continued to grow as he made more and more bets in the employee residence
for palace workers in need of a way out crian cry decided to get morally flexible about resolving
his problems in 1989 prince feisal was to go on a three-month holiday with his family with
a deep knowledge of the palace and relatively free access due to his job kriankrai knew that
prince faisal stored his wealth of jewels in three of four safes though were usually kept
unlocked and so it was that after the prince went on holiday criancry put his plan into motion
a simple plan being generally the best he simply waited until the other staff were off the premises
and snuck into the prince's bedroom next he took out a couple hundred pounds worth of jewelry and
duct taped many of the items to his body as well as stuffed as much as he could fit into
a vacuum cleaner's bag which he would then have shipped to thailand after shipping the jewels he
flew to thailand before the prince's vacation ended up on arrival he bribed the customs
officials searching the incoming container not to look too closely at his bag crayon cry explained
to them that he was bringing home pornography and didn't want it confiscated his plan worked
and he took the loot home to the northern thai province of lampang so what did crian cry steal
well that would be about 20 million dollars worth of jewelry this included watches necklaces rubies
and most mysteriously a large 50 50-carat supposedly cursed blue diamond on this one
we don't actually have a picture of the diamond in question with only eyewitnesses and official
accounts of its existence coming from saudi officials and kriankra himself of course stealing
incredibly valuable jewelry is one thing finding someone to buy it is another and upon arriving
in lampang kriankrai had a hard time fencing the stolen items however ultimately he found
jewelers and thieves sith and neck and willing to purchase them for an undisclosed amount not 0:04:26.800,1193:02:47.295 long after not
from available the jeweler for his part criancry did not put up a fight and admitted to his deeds
reducing what could have been a seven-year jail sentence to just three as for lieutenant
general chaloar he announced the seizure and led a delegation to saudi arabia to return the jewels
but curiously not before the seas jewels were held at a bangkok hotel for two days before being
officially transferred to a police station for no apparent reason at the time thai saudi relations
up to this point were actually pretty good both nations were monarchies and pursued anti-communist
repressions during the cold war the thai economy relied heavily on remittances and there were
around 200 000 thai workers in saudi arabia backed by a robust industry in thailand dedicated to
recruiting laborers to work there additionally the tourism sector flourished as thailand was a
popular destination for saudis and others in the middle east keeping these relations good
was of utmost importance to the thai government so chlor's delegation had a lot riding on it and
here's where the story takes a sudden turn upon investigation the saudis spotted that the jewels
were fake replaced with paste copies even then only 80 percent of the missing jewels
were returned with the most important of them still missing the cursed 50-carat blue diamond
upon this discovery chlor and the thai police were immediately under suspicion by the saudis
it didn't help that the wives of police and government officials were rumored by the thai
press to be wearing jewelry suspiciously similar to the stolen items to important events attempting
to resolve the mystery the saudis ordered its diplomats serving in thailand to investigate as
well as dispatching a businessman named muhammad alwa ali with ties to the saudi royal family to
carry out his own investigation naturally this head of a string of bloody murders so what
happened in february of the same year the saudi consul investigating the case abdullah al-buri was
shot in his apartment and around 10 minutes later diplomats fahad al bali and ahmed al-saif were
shot in their car on route to the saudi embassy later that same month aourawali was kidnapped and
was never seen again to this day nobody has been found but he is presumed dead these murders made
a tense situation between the two countries worse and the saudis downgraded their diplomatic
relations as a result this in turn put pressure on the thai government because downgrading relations
meant putting on hold the recruitment and immigration process for thai workers
to saudi arabia saudi arabia further banned its citizens from hiring thai workers and the number
of thai migrant workers in saudi arabia dropped from around 200 000 to 10 thousand naturally the
pressure was on to resolve the case and so it was that saudi arabia dispatched the colorful muhammad
said kosher not pulling any punches kosher immediately accused the police of corruption theft
of the jewels and murder of the diplomats you also had a habit of conducting interviews about all of
this with his gun placed on the desk as to those murders american diplomatic reports unearthed by
wikileaks claimed that it was all a hezbollah plot against the saudis much later the thai department
of special investigations would try and pin at least one of the murders on an arab by the name
of abu ali a generic pseudonym while also claiming the blue diamonds never actually existed at all
however through the use of a private investigator kosher uncovered what he believed to be the events
leading up to ao ruari's murder he was abducted by police and taken to a hotel for interrogations to
reveal what he had turned up so far whatever the results of the interrogation were he was
then taken to a farm to be executed and his body was supposedly burned two years after al rawali's
disappearance police lieutenant colonel somgird boone thanom was arrested and charged with his
murder the charges against sonkid however were eventually dropped but his name is going to come
up again hoping to smooth things over in june of 1991 thai officials reopened the case and
later arrested four people on charges of receiving stolen goods and charged an investigating officer
with embezzlement one of those arrested was santhi the jeweler officials accused him of making the
fakes that were delivered to saudi arabia by lieutenant general chalor reportedly santhi
either sold the goods or as believed by the saudis colluded with the police to sell or hide them
as a key witness in the case naturally in july of 1994 he was kidnapped by police and his wife
and son went missing only to be found in a car accident in bangkok the bodies showed signs of
blunt force trauma not consistent with the car accident and appeared that the accident was
staged despite these assessments the official forensics report concluded that it was indeed
an accident and there was absolutely no foul play however as for kosia he made waves in the
news denying the report and accusing the forensic commander of covering up the original crime later
autopsies confirmed this showing the individuals did not die in a car accident apparently
insanely good at their job the police then concluded the individuals were likely murdered
and the murder was staged like a car accident after all what just to muddy the waters further
they would later try to walk back that statement by claiming the blunt force trauma was caused by
the truck that struck the car and it was indeed just a tragic accident this seriously worked
surprisingly and lieutenant general chalor was arrested and charged with murdering santhi's
family during chelor's trial it was concluded that four men carried out the murders on behalf of the
police supposedly they kidnapped the family to extort millions out of santhi but whatever
reason his family was murdered instead chlor was sentenced to death we'll come back to him in just
a bit and neither he nor santhi would divulge any information about the rest of the missing jewels
koja the saudi investigator claimed that the rest of the jewels were held by a small number
of high-ranking thai officials and are still in the country jalor on the other hand maintained his
innocence of both the theft and the murders but always not lost for the missing items as rumors
of a curse seemed to weigh heavily on some of the recipients of the jewelry as throughout 1994 some
items from the hall were periodically dropped off to the police with notes citing their return
owing to the item's curse also in 1994 the aforementioned lieutenant colonel somkir who was
previously charged with al rawali's disappearance would get a promotion to intelligence chief of
the bangkok police department fast forward to 2009 20 years after the theft and murders and
10 years after the death of prince isil in 1999 the statute of limitations was about to pass on
the whole thing before that happened saudi arabia increased pressure on the thai government to solve
the murders and the theft once and for all it was at this point that supposedly new evidence pointed
back to now lieutenant general somkid in the interim of all this repeated attempts were made
to charge him with aoruwali's murder but these were thwarted by public prosecutors until it was
pushed hard enough by the department of special investigations and so it was that the lieutenant
general was finally staring down murder charges apparently still with friends in high places while
awaiting trial a baffling turn of events occurred lieutenant general some kid was promoted once
again this time to assistant national police chief putting aside the timing of the promotion his new
promotion potentially gave somkid control over his own case this angered the saudis as they knew
thailand had laws prohibiting the promotion of an officer charged with committing a criminal act
thai officials countered by citing laws that seem to be grandfathered in allowing for some kid's
promotion further the national police chief tried to argue that some kid's promotion was actually
a demotion the saudis however didn't buy it and seeing the saudis close to pulling
relations altogether somkid decided to reject his promotion only to accept a slightly lesser
one to inspect a general a week later if you think this probably didn't go over well
and things were all looking okay for some kid you'd not be entirely shocked to learn that
in march of 2014 some kid and the other police officers accused at the time were all acquitted
and saudi thai relations suffered greatly as a result in the end only two people actually saw
prison time over the ordeal crian cry tacoman for the theft and lieutenant general chalor
kurthus for the kidnapping of santhi the jeweler and the murder of his wife and son as for criancry
he was released early due to good behavior he promptly changed his name to avoid attention but
according to him people still track him down and press him for information about the stolen jewelry
from time to time he was also reportedly plagued with guilt over his actions and thus in 2016
became a monk inviting the media to his ordination however he didn't last long as a monk and left the
monastery to work odd jobs to support his family as for chile we can't even make this stuff up
while in jail ever the elvis enthusiast he became an elvis impersonator and recorded a cover of
jailhouse rock beyond this jalor maintained his innocence throughout his stay in jail
and upon release even though he initially received the death penalty he is very much alive and out of
jail presently much like criancry he also became a monk and was even at criancry's ordination as
for the present state of things in january 2022 relations between the two governments seemed to
be normalizing again as the thai prime minister prath chan olga went to saudi arabia for a two-day
visit to meet with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman the saudis still maintain the case has
not been properly handled and for now the blue diamond remains missing and the murders of the
saudi diplomats are still unsolved and so it is that the blue diamond affair may not be over yet