Was he trying to beat Imelda's shoe collection?
Certainly looking more and more like Malaysia's voters did well to give him the boot a few weeks ago.
maybe that's how many you need to hold $39m in cash - works out at $69000 per bag so mostly in large value notes so there was space for the jewellery ($440,000 per bag), watch and occasional pair of sunglasses
And in a not particularly surprising piece of news, he is now under arrest.