It's been described as the most expensive private party ever, with a budget as bottomless as the supply of starry guests was inexhaustible. In a vast circus-style marquee on a five-acre lot in Las Vegas one night in November 2012, Hollywood stars, Middle Eastern princes and Wall Street bank bosses gathered to celebrate the 31st birthday of a flamboyant young man dubbed the Asian Great Gatsby.
He was Jho Low, a Harrow-educated Chinese-Malaysian financier whose name was again making headlines ten days ago following the jailing of a top banker accused of helping him orchestrate a multi-billion dollar international scam whose scope and audacity still almost defies belief.
