17 years ago, in July this year, the sensational Saudi prince jewel theft case was decided. Lieutenant General Chalo, the former police chief of Thailand, was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment by the criminal court of Thailand for internal theft. This shocking jewel theft is as tortuous as a movie plot, which leads to unstable relations between Thailand and Arab countries. Even at the Asian Cup draw ceremony, Saudi Arabia resolutely refused to go to Thailand.

This amazing case that turned Thailand and Saudi Arabia against each other should start with 1989. At that time, from

Jiang Kelai, a Thai waiter from Bangkok to the Saudi palace, stole $20 million worth of jewelry from the Saudi prince's palace and fled back to his hometown of Bangkok, Thailand. The furious Saudi Alama royal family immediately asked Thailand to hunt down the thieves. At that time, Thai police chief Chalo was the chief investigator of jewelry theft. 1990, the jewel thief Jiang Kelai was arrested and returned to its original owner. The thief Jiang Kelai was sentenced to five years in prison.

But this is not the end of the matter. The Saudi royal family doesn't like to get angry after receiving stolen jewels, because only a quarter of the jewels returned to the Saudi prince by the Thai police are genuine, and the rest are fakes. Most of the stolen jewels were replaced. What is even more bizarre is that this jewel theft also led to the mysterious disappearance and killing of many Saudis. A Saudi businessman 1990 was sent to Thailand by the Saudi royal family to investigate jewelry theft, but unexpectedly disappeared. Three months later, three diplomats of the Saudi embassy in Thailand were killed in Bangkok, and the Thai police never solved the case. This theft has seriously affected the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Thailand, so the Saudi government stopped issuing work visas to Thais, and the diplomatic missions of the two countries were also reduced to the agency level.

The answer was not revealed until July this year. According to the judgment of the Thai Criminal Court, "Lieutenant General Chalo, the former police chief of Thailand, as the highest police chief of Thailand, used this case to conspire with six other police officers to guard the stolen goods-the stolen jewels of the Saudi royal family worth $20 million. He is also suspected of kidnapping a stolen jeweler and murdering the jeweler's wife and children. " -It turned out that when Lieutenant General Chalo was investigating the jewel theft case, he found that Sandy Wu, a Thai jeweler, bought some stolen jewels from Jiang Kelai. Charo, lured by jewels, changed from a police chief to a kidnapper, kidnapped a jeweler in cooperation with six policemen, forced him to account for the lost jewels, tied up the case and killed Shandi's wife and 8-year-old son, then embezzled some jewels and returned them to the Saudi royal family with fakes.

The case has been solved, but the crack has not been eliminated. At the Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia and Thailand, out of sight, out of mind.