Deutsche Bank said it had removed the hotels owned by the sultanate from its list of suppliers. The five star hotel is found in the affluent Mayfair area. A spokesperson for the Foreign Office said it believed open and honest discussion was the best way to encourage Brunei to change its behaviour. He has also invested millions of pounds in Draper Esprit, a tech-focused venture capital fund with holdings in Trustpilot and the financial services firm Revolut. The luxurious Rome hotel was built in 1889. The BIA indirectly owns some of the hotels and several other properties via companies in the tax haven of Jersey. Global travel agency, STA Travel announced it would stop selling flights on national carrier Royal Brunei Airlines. J.P. Morgan and a growing list of banks are banning employees from staying at hotels owned by the sultan of Brunei while traveling for business. A statement on the website read: ‘We understand people’s anger and frustration but this is a political and religious issue that we don’t believe should be played out in our hotels and amongst our 3,630 employees’. The airline is owned by the government of Brunei. Rather the property has an estimated value of £500m once rents are being charged. Opened in 1931, The Dorchester isn’t just one of the fanciest hotels in London, but in the whole world. An international backlash against Brunei’s new laws was gathering pace on Saturday. It comes after celebrities such as George Clooney, Elton John and Ellen DeGeneres, urged consumers to blacklist its hotels, including London’s The Dorchester and Los Angeles’ Beverley Hills Hotel. Transport for London said it would pull advertisements for Brunei’s national airline, while King’s College London and Aberdeen University were reviewing honorary degrees granted to Bolkiah. Opened nearly 100 years after its Paris sister location, the five-star hotel offers 154 rooms in the fashionable district of avenue Montaigne. It added: ‘As an institution deeply committed to equality, diversity and individual rights we understand and share the concerns of our students and staff who have expressed abhorrence at recent developments in Brunei and would like to disassociate from them. Draper Esprit’s CEO Simon Cook said the company ‘naturally abhor’ the moves in Brunei but said the BIA bought shares on the open market and has no ‘influence either on our company culture or our investment decisions’. Most celebrities have pledged not to patronize this hotel until Brunei’s Sharia law is reversed. Hilary Osborne and A company statement read: ‘We’ve taken this stance to add our voice to the calls on Brunei to reverse this change in the law and in support of LGBTQI people everywhere.’. All photos collected from The Dorchester Collection, Facebook. 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The architect of new laws mandating the stoning to death of gay people in Brunei has billions of pounds of property wealth in the UK, shares in a leading tech fund and gets assistance from City auditing firms, a Guardian analysis has found. There are a few ways to help, such as encouraging the politicians and leaders of your countries to put pressure on Brunei. 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Bolkiah has become an international pariah for his implementation of sharia laws, including the stoning to death of people thought to be gay or to have committed adultery, in the country he has ruled as a supreme monarch for decades. The world is reeling after the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, greenlit the practice of Sharia law in the country.