Hassanal Bolkiah, who believes gay people should be stoned to death, is assisted by leading City auditing firms
The architect of new laws mandating the stoning to death of gay people in Brunei has billions of pounds of property wealth in the UK, shares in a leading tech fund and gets assistance from City auditing firms, a Guardian analysis has found.
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