Maktoums – Trillionaire Family That Built Dubai | 2025 Documentary
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- 2 December 2025
The world believes Dubai was built on oil, but the truth is far more dangerous. From its shadowed origins as a gold-smuggling hub to its rise as the ultimate sanctuary for global oligarchs, this is the untold financial history of the Al Maktoum dynasty. Discover how a desperate desert tribe engineered a trillion-dollar loophole, leveraging massive debt and geopolitical neutrality to transform a dying pearl village into the “City of Gold”—and the most expensive gamble in human history.
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