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Sultan of Sulu

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The Untold Story of Prince Hadji Rodinood M. Sultan


Julaspi Kiram

The assets of the Sultan of Sulu and North Borneo, Sultan Jamalul
Kiram consist of 617,500 MT of Au AND 500,000 pieces of 10-karat
diamonds. This mass quantity of Au was brought to Manila in 1935,
through the Sultan Julaspi’s father’s trustees namely, Julian Macleod
Tallano (the grandson of Alfred Dent-one of the lesses of the Sultanate
of Sulu and North Borneo/Sabah, circa January 4, 1878) and Reverend
Father Antonio Diaz a.k.a. Col. Severino Santa Romana.

All these assets were eventually transported to Vatican City in 1939 in


the effort to protect them from the escalating World War II. After the
World War II was over, particularly in 1949 the afore named trustees,
with the assistance of then young and brilliant lawyer, Atty. Ferdinand
E. Marcos brought back the Au to the Philippines (Atty. Marcos would
eventually become the Senate President, then elected as the President
of the Philippines and would hold to the presidency for more than 20
years). For reasons of both safekeeping and assisting the stability of
the reborne Philippine Republic, the Philippine government borrowed
these assets on January 7, 1949 to augment and achieve the gold
reserve of its newly instituted Philippine Central Bank. Because of the
Sultan’s gold reserve with the Central Bank, the Philippine peso had
stabilized in the period of 1949 to 1960, when the value of the peso
against the dollar barely ranged from $1:P2 to $1:P4.
Unknown to many the root cause of the Marcos-Macapagal conflict
emanated from the illegal and secret transport by then Senate
President Marcos of some three metric tons of Sultan’s gold reserve
from the Philippine Central Bank to London and another seven metric
tons to Zurich and Germany on September 23, 1963 without the
permission of the Sultan’s son; Sultan Julaspi (since Sultan Jamalul was
already dead at this time) and of then President Diosdado Macapagal.
While the Sultanates 617,500 metric tons of gold bullion inventory at
the Philippine Central Bank remained intact, in actuality some ten (10)
metric tons thereof were forcibly withdrawn by the Senate Security
force even in the presence of the Royal family’s caretaker; Rev. Father
Antonio Diaz.
When President Marcos became the President of the Philippines, a total
of two hundred seventeen thousand (217,000) metric tons of the Royal
family AU reserve were illegally transported between 1965 to 1970 to
various countries such as, the Republic of China, Hong Kong (which
was then a British colony), Switzerland, USA and the United Kingdom
only four hundred thousand (400,000) metric tons remained of the
Sultan’s gold reserve. In executing these illegal transfers, President
Marcos and then Central Bank Governor Andres Castillo forcibly made
Reverend Father Antonio Diaz, being the entrusted signatory to the
Sultan’s AU bullion accounts, to sign the withdrawal of Marcos.

From 1970 onwards, President Marcos no longer used the good


Reverend father Antonio Diaz in his withdrawal, instead he convinced
the only son of Sultan Jamalul Kiram named Sultan Julaspi to give him
the full power of authority to withdraw the remaining gold reserve of
the Sultanate. Sultan Julaspi Kiram who was then living in Malaysia (9
lorong Maarof, Off Jalan Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur) did not hesitate with
Marcos idea. For one, it woud be his family’s opportunity to finally
secure their assets and secondly, he gave his full trust to Marcos
considering that he was a relative. With his full authority, President
Marcos then transported the remaining AU reserve to various
countries, that is China, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, Saudi Arabia,
Malaysia, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, Dubai, Korea, Thailand,
Taiwan Germany, Canada, US, Pakistan, North Korea, Jordan, Norway,
Spain, Australia, South Korea, Oman, UAE and a host of other
countries.
Although Marcos assigned the assets to different names, he managed
to put on record that the real owner of this tremendous wealth is no
other than the only surviving one and only son of Sultan Jamalul Kiram
II; Sultan Julaspi Kiram. Different beneficiaries were assigned by
Marcos to the different accounts in various banks worldwide. Many of
the beneficiaries were heads of State, his own family members, some
of his trusted military men, while a number of the accounts were in the
names of Sta. Romana, Pedro Palafox, Clemente Santiago, William
Morales, Bayaban, DNP and Evelinda Bobila under the master account
“cactus Dahlia EB 101 that includes all the FLAT accounts and many
others.
Considering that these accounts were eventually traded worldwide,
huge and tremendous cash accounts were created from the proceeds
alone. These traded accounts, which in reality were owned by Sultan
Julaspi Kiram, were managed by his relative ex President Marcos.
In 1980, President Marcos persuaded Sultan Julaspi Kiram to return to
the Philippines. Sultan Julaspi has been living in Malaysia with hopes
from the promises of the Malaysian Government, through Prime
Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, that he would be installed as the First
Yang Di Peruan Agong of Malaysia or First King of Kings Malaysia
being the legitimate owner of Sabah which was annexed to Malaysia
because of the Sultan Julaspi’s approval. As this promise proved futile
and as his hopes faded, Sultan Julaspi Kiram together with his three (3)
sons namely: Prince Rodinood, Prince Arhan and Prince Khudar
returned to the Philippines under the heavy guard of President Marcos’
military. This time president Marcos was bent of on helping the Sultan
to regain his old leased land the State of Sabah /North Borneo, from
the Malaysian Government. Marcos and Sultan Julaspi Kiram worked
on the plans to regain Sabah and to develop the whole Mindanao,
Archipelago of Sulu (which includes Tawi tawi, Basilan and all the
Islands around) and the rest of the Philippines using the assets of the
Sultan.
Unfortunately, in 1986 President Marcos was deposed in a popular
revolt and flown by the Americans to Hawaii, where he died a few years
later (1989), Sultan Julaspi Kiram was left behind. He died in 1994 in
deep frustration of not having been able to access any of his accounts.

In 1995, the signatory trustee of the master account “ CACTUS


DHALIA” EB 101”; MS. EVELINDA BOBILA through Mr. Sulaiman Ismail
of Bumiputra Bank of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia instructed the
principal bank, UBS HEAD OFFICE IN ZURICH, to notify all the
depository banks in 54 countries around the world of the change of
account ownership from her to PRINCE HADJI RODINOOD M. SULTAN
JULASPI KIRAM. Since the transfer, the current account
owner/signatory has not been able to physically present to these
institutions to complete the procedures. This is the very reason why
the present registered owner has not been able to receive any bank
statements from any of these depository banks.

POSTLUDE
It is a recorded fact that many countries all over the world owe their Au
back up of their respective Central Banks to the wealth of the Sultan of
Sulu. Even Malaysia, which had been rude towards the family of the
late Sultan Julaspi Kiram, can never deny the fact that without the
Sultan’s wealth, Malaysia would not become what it is now.
The Philippine Government has likewise no right to run after this AU
and cash accounts for it does not belong to them. Even before Marcos
became the President, the Sultanate had outstanding AU and cash
accounts in various banks all over the world. Even their own Supreme
Court of the Philippines had recorded the saga of the Sultanate’s
wealth of how it has raised the country’s economy, of how these were
wrongfully and unfairly tossed to several accounts. The Philippines
therefore cannot profess recovering wealth it does not own.
SULTAN HADJI RODINOOD, the eldest son of Sultan Julaspi Kiram and
the rightful Heir to the throne of the Royal Sultanate of Sulu and North
Borneo/Sabah is calling on the leaders of the world to heed his father’s
Last Will and Testament that his family be restored to its rightfully
standing, to revive the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo and to
utilize his assets where they could ultimately make difference to uplift
the lives of many, not only of the Sultanate, but also all people around

the world.
All these assets were eventually transported to
Vatican City in 1939 in the effort to protect them
from the escalating World War II. After the World
War II was over, particularly in 1949 the afore named
trustees, with the assistance of then young and
brilliant lawyer, Atty. Ferdinand E. Marcos brought back the Au to the
Philippines (Atty. Marcos would eventually become the Senate
President, then elected as the President of the Philippines and would
hold to the presidency for more than 20 years). For reasons of both
safekeeping and assisting the stability of the reborne Philippine
Republic, the Philippine government borrowed these assets on January
7, 1949 to augment and achieve the gold reserve of its newly
instituted Philippine Central Bank. Because of the Sultan’s gold reserve
with the Central Bank, the Philippine peso had stabilized in the period
of 1949 to 1960, when the value of the peso against the dollar barely
ranged from $1:P2 to $1:P4.

Unknown to many the root cause of the Marcos-Macapagal conflict


emanated from the illegal and secret transport by then Senate
President Marcos of some three metric tons of Sultan’s gold reserve
from the Philippine Central Bank to London and another seven metric
tons to Zurich and Germany on September 23, 1963 without the
permission of the Sultan’s son; Sultan Julaspi (since Sultan Jamalul was
already dead at this time) and of then President Diosdado Macapagal.
While the Sultanates 617,500 metric tons of gold bullion inventory at
the Philippine Central Bank remained intact, in actuality some ten (10)
metric tons thereof were forcibly withdrawn by the Senate Security
force even in the presence of the Royal family’s caretaker; Rev. Father
Antonio Diaz.

When President Marcos became the President of the Philippines, a total


of two hundred seventeen thousand (217,000) metric tons of the Royal
family AU reserve were illegally transported between 1965 to 1970 to
various countries such as, the Republic of China, Hong Kong (which
was then a British colony), Switzerland, USA and the United Kingdom
only four hundred thousand (400,000) metric tons remained of the
Sultan’s gold reserve. In executing these illegal transfers, President
Marcos and then Central Bank Governor Andres Castillo forcibly made
Reverend Father Antonio Diaz, being the entrusted signatory to the
Sultan’s AU bullion accounts, to sign the withdrawal of Marcos.

From 1970 onwards, President Marcos no longer used the good


Reverend father Antonio Diaz in his withdrawal, instead he convinced
the only son of Sultan Jamalul Kiram named Sultan Julaspi to give him
the full power of authority to withdraw the remaining gold reserve of
the Sultanate. Sultan Julaspi Kiram who was then living in Malaysia (9
lorong Maarof, Off Jalan Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur) did not hesitate with
Marcos idea. For one, it woud be his family’s opportunity to finally
secure their assets and secondly, he gave his full trust to Marcos
considering that he was a relative. With his full authority, President
Marcos then transported the remaining AU reserve to various
countries, that is China, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, Saudi Arabia,
Malaysia, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, Dubai, Korea, Thailand,
Taiwan Germany, Canada, US, Pakistan, North Korea, Jordan, Norway,
Spain, Australia, South Korea, Oman, UAE and a host of other
countries.

Although Marcos assigned the assets to different names, he managed


to put on record that the real owner of this tremendous wealth is no
other than the only surviving one and only son of Sultan Jamalul Kiram
II; Sultan Julaspi Kiram. Different beneficiaries were assigned by
Marcos to the different accounts in various banks worldwide. Many of
the beneficiaries were heads of State, his own family members, some
of his trusted military men, while a number of the accounts were in the
names of Sta. Romana, Pedro Palafox, Clemente Santiago, William
Morales, Bayaban, DNP and Evelinda Bobila under the master account
“cactus Dahlia EB 101 that includes all the FLAT accounts and many
others.

Considering that these accounts were eventually traded worldwide,


huge and tremendous cash accounts were created from the proceeds
alone. These traded accounts, which in reality were owned by Sultan
Julaspi Kiram, were managed by his relative ex President Marcos.

In 1980, President Marcos persuaded Sultan Julaspi Kiram to return to


the Philippines. Sultan Julaspi has been living in Malaysia with hopes
from the promises of the Malaysian Government, through Prime
Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, that he would be installed as the First
Yang Di Peruan Agong of Malaysia or First King of Kings Malaysia
being the legitimate owner of Sabah which was annexed to Malaysia
because of the Sultan Julaspi’s approval. As this promise proved futile
and as his hopes faded, Sultan Julaspi Kiram together with his three (3)
sons namely: Prince Rodinood, Prince Arhan and Prince Khudar
returned to the Philippines under the heavy guard of President Marcos’
military. This time president Marcos was bent of on helping the Sultan
to regain his old leased land the State of Sabah /North Borneo, from
the Malaysian Government. Marcos and Sultan Julaspi Kiram worked
on the plans to regain Sabah and to develop the whole Mindanao,
Archipelago of Sulu (which includes Tawi tawi, Basilan and all the
Islands around) and the rest of the Philippines using the assets of the
Sultan.

Unfortunately, in 1986 President Marcos was deposed in a popular


revolt and flown by the Americans to Hawaii, where he died a few years
later (1989), Sultan Julaspi Kiram was left behind. He died in 1994 in
deep frustration of not having been able to access any of his accounts.
In 1995, the signatory trustee of the master account “ CACTUS
DHALIA” EB 101”, MS. EVELINDA BOBILA, through Mr. Sulaiman Ismail
of Bumiputra Bank of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, instructed the
principal bank, UBS HEAD OFFICE IN ZURICH, to notify all the
depository banks in 54 countries around the world of the change of
account ownership from her to PRINCE HADJI RODINOOD M. SULTAN
JULASPI KIRAM. Since the transfer, the current account
owner/signatory has not been able to physically present to these
institutions to complete the procedures. This is the very reason why
the present registered owner has not been able to receive any bank
statements from any of these depository banks.

POSTLUDE

It is a recorded fact that many countries all over the world owe the Au
reserves of their respective Central Banks to the wealth of the Sultan of
Sulu. Even Malaysia, which had been rude towards the family of the
late Sultan Julaspi Kiram, can never deny the fact that without the
Sultan’s wealth, Malaysia would not become what it is now.

The Philippine Government has likewise no right to run after this AU


and cash accounts for it does not belong to them. Even before Marcos
became the President, the Sultanate had outstanding AU and cash
accounts in various banks all over the world. Even their own Supreme
Court of the Philippines had recorded the saga of the Sultanate’s
wealth of how it has raised the country’s economy, of how these were
wrongfully and unfairly tossed to several accounts. The Philippines
therefore cannot profess recovering wealth it does not own.
SULTAN HADJI RODINOOD, the eldest son of Sultan Julaspi Kiram and
the rightful Heir to the throne of the Royal Sultanate of Sulu and North
Borneo/Sabah is calling on the leaders of the world to heed his father’s
Last Will and Testament that his family be restored to its rightfully
standing, to revive the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo and to
utilize his assets where they could ultimately make difference to uplift
the lives of many, not only of the Sultanate, but also all people around
the world.

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