Pandora Papers: King of Jordan amassed £70m secret property empire

The King of Jordan has secretly acquired luxury homes in Malibu and Washington DC in the US and London and Ascot in the UK

In Malibu, California, he spent £50m ($68m) on three clifftop mansions

According to California planning records, one of them will soon be rebuilt twice the size, and another will get a new swimming pool

The king’s properties also include apartments in Washington DC, where his son attended university

A seven-bedroom apartment in this block was bought for £4.7m ($6.5m) in 2012

And in the UK, King Abdullah bought eight properties in London and south-east England, through offshore companies

Including multi-million pound homes near Buckingham Palace. He bought the property on the left and three flats in the property on the right