EX-AGONG’S SCANDAL ABOUT TO ERUPT AGAIN – FORMER KELANTAN SULTANAH, DUMPED WEEKS AFTER GIVING BIRTH TO HEIR, TO START LEGAL FIGHT IN LONDON AGAINST PARSIMONIOUS ALIMONY OF ONLY £1,350 TO RAISE SON WHO IS NOW 3 YEARS OLD
Politics | December 23, 2022 5:45 pm by | 0 Comments
Former Kelantan Sultanah Left On Breadline In UK To Bring Up Son
An embarrassing matter is being reported from a UK court case involving Malaysia’s former King and the current Sultan of Kelantan, Muhammad V.
His third wife, the Russian born Rihana Oksana Gorbatenko, was discarded by the sultan in 2019, shortly after she had given birth to his only known son who appears to have likewise been discarded as his heir.
Oksana holds a degree in economics but has also worked as a model and won the title of Miss Moscow in 2015. Last week she told a court in London, where she now resides, that having informed her he was divorcing her the Sultan only agreed to pay her a ‘derisory’ £1,350 a month to bring up their royal off-spring.
To understand the value of £1,350 in the London think of what you could purchase with the equivalent RM1,350 in KL. A two bedroomed flat in London costs about £1 million to buy or at least $2,000 a month to rent (before utilities are paid for let alone the basic costs of food and clothing).
It would therefore appear to be a highly parsimonious allowance for a grand and wealthy monarch towards his former wife and son and indeed the Scrooge-like behaviour has attracted the interest of Britain’s tabloids which have started covering the case.
Of particular interest is the fact that the allowance being offered to this banished former spouse appears to have been dreamed up by the Sultan himself without recourse to any independent or legal arbitration on the matter.
The concept of his former wife being entitled to some form of rights appears not to have played a part in the arrangement by Malaysia’s former King (the only one to have abdicated, partly, it is believed, over the scandal of his secret marriage to a foreign born wife who was later revealed to have posed for saucy pictures in a jacuzzi).
None of this is likely to recommend itself to a foreign court in a democratic country and it is being presented as something of a scandal in the British press, yet there appears to have been little or no coverage of the matter yet in Malaysia.
Attempts that were made by representatives of the sultan in the London court to quash the case appear to have been so far dismissed by the judge, making it now look inevitable that there will be a ruling on the matter, which on all precedents will be likely to require a far, far, far more generous settlement on his wife and son than he personally appears to deem appropriate.
Meanwhile, it is also being reported that Mohammad has found himself a new European wife, this time from the Czech Republic. She should perhaps bear in mind that luxuries now might be replaced with hard times on a shoe string should the Sultan choose to move on again and chuck her away along with any children she may have by then produced.
After all, that is how most people in Kelantan get by, given the state is the poorest in mainland Malaysia with 12% living below the poverty income level (now set at RM2,200 pm which is more than he effectively allocates his ex-wife) although he naturally lives in palatial splendour.
See the latest report on the court case by the UK Daily Mail newspaper below, which points out that the nature loving sultan keeps wild animals in his royal gardens, at presumably greater cost than he presently expends on his wife and child:
