I just learned about the Jho Low case—it's truly a wild story that shows how reality can be crazier than movies. The guy disappeared for years, and then he was allegedly found in Shanghai, living in a mansion under a fake Australian passport.

For those who aren’t in the know: Jho Low was the chief architect of one of the biggest financial scandals—this refers to the theft of nearly $4.5 billion from the Malaysian fund 1MDB. The money went to yachts, paintings, luxury real estate, and even financed the film “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Remember how Leonardo DiCaprio thanked him at the Golden Globes in 2014? Back then, nobody understood what he was talking about, but later everything fell into place.

What’s truly astonishing is that, according to the documentary project Finding Jho Low, Jho Low allegedly works as a consultant for the Chinese government, helping sanctioned companies bypass international restrictions. It’s as if the main character of a crime thriller simply retrained and started a new life in another country.

This story about Jho Low proves that sometimes real events are much crazier than any scenario dreamed up by a Hollywood writer. The person behind one of the largest-scale financial crimes just disappeared and continued his activities in a new capacity. Hollywood couldn’t make something like that up.