Who is ‘thief of Doha’, the original owner of $400M jet to be gifted to Donald Trump?

Trump $400 million Qatar was initially commissioned by Qatar’s former PM Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani.

Amid a significant row over President Donald Trump probably getting a $400 million Boeing Jet from Qatar as a present, it has now been revealed that the Qatari jet has been sitting unsold for years since 2020 and Qatar now needs to dump it. The plane initially belonged to former prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, often known as HBJ. These initials are nonetheless there in the jet’s tail quantity. The sheikh has been embroiled in a $20 million authorized dispute over a string of luxurious accommodations, the New York Post reported. The former PM has been branded as the ‘thief of Doha’ by a Washington suppose tank after the DOJ accused him of presiding over bribery and corruption when he introduced 2022 World Cup to Qatar. HBJ has lots of controversies and lawsuits aside from the corruption allegations. He made an antisemitic tirade in an interview final 12 months as he stated, “Imagine oil was sold by some Jews … what would be the price of a barrel oil? It would be the most expensive thing in the world,”HBJ served as Prime Minister from April 3, 2007, to June 26, 2013, during the reign of Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. He stepped down as Prime Minister on June 26, 2013, one day after Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani abdicated in favor of his son, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.Before that, HBJ was Qatar’s Foreign Minister for over two decades, from 1992 to 2013Trump’s Qatar visit is the second destination of his Gulf tour, after a first stop in Riyadh, where he made a surprise announcement lifting sanctions on Syria and met the country’s president. Qatar Airways had placed a “document” order for 160 planes from Boeing, its largest ever order for its wide-body jets.