This was as a result of the Asian financial crisis that made my father company AMEDEO DEVELOPMENT COMPANY (ADC) and government owned BRUNEI INVESTMENT COMPANY (BIC) to be declared bankrupt during his tenure in office. However my father was kept under house arrest, his bank accounts and private properties including a crude oil export refinery were later confiscated by the sultanate. Furthermore during this unfortunate period, I was advised to evacuate my immediate family outside the sultanate to avoid further prosecution from the sultan and his security operatives, but before I could do that I was placed under house arrest by the Sultan and I had no access to phone, but I have a Palm V hand-held computer from which I am sending you this mail. Some of the guards here are still loyal to me.
Before my incaceration, I went ahead to dispatch the sum in cash with the assistance of a foreign diplomat who now reside in Europe.
The money has now been deposited as valuables into different private security and trust company for safe keeping abroad. The money where splited and kept in these countries Thailand, Holland ,Germany.
Prince Musa Bolkiah.