Arab world’s longest-serving current monarch has disguised his ownership of properties via series of offshore firms, documents show

Jordanian security forces arrived unexpectedly at Moayyad al-Majali’s home one day in October 2019, detaining the lawyer, confiscating his laptop and phones and accusing him of one of the kingdom’s most serious offences.

His crime was slandering the country’s ruler, King Abdullah II, simply by asking a single question: how much land does the king own?

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