Chris Harborne
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Is that honestly, we don't know.
There's plenty of donors, big donors.
who will never stop going on about their political donations, right?
But Harbourne's not like that.
There's a legal filing he's made in the defamation claim, you know, in the States against the Wall Street Journal there, which wrote a story about him.
And it actually gives this sort of fascinating account, and really the only account I've seen him give of himself.
And one of the points it makes is that he's intensely private.
That's how his lawyers describe it.
It says he doesn't proselytize his views.
He doesn't have social media.
He doesn't give interviews.
He refused to give one to me.
And so there is very limited amount to see on him.
So yeah, I think he had probably millions by the end of the Asian financial crisis, so the turn of the millennium, around the time his political days would start.
So that's when he sets out on his own.
So he has this head fund and he starts investing in all sorts of things.
And he sets up a company to do jet fuel.
He trades in jet fuel.
And in private jets.
That's lucrative.