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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is asking a US court to dismiss a complaint against him related to the attempt to assassinate former security official Saad Al-Jabri, and confirms Al-Jabri’s involvement in corruption cases.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked a US court to reject a complaint filed by former security official Saad al-Jabri accusing him of attempting to assassinate him, according to accessible court documents. on Wednesday.
Michael Kellogg, the lawyer for the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, wrote to the Federal Court in Washington on Monday that the flaws in this complaint are very clear and profound.
He added: “The complaint speaks of an attempt to kill Jabri in Canada from Saudi Arabia, but none of the few accusations against the United States has demonstrated the existence of contacts between the Crown Prince and the United States and the legal claims of Al-Jabri.” .
Bin Salman’s lawyer noted that “Saudi Arabia has filed a lawsuit for this blatant corruption and robbery, and is trying to extradite Al-Jabri, who lives in exile in Canada.” Noting that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia enjoys special immunity for heads of state.
The federal court in Washington filed a lawsuit against the Saudi crown prince for his threat to kill Saad Al-Jabri.
Earlier, the “Wall Street Journal” revealed that Saudi Arabia “tried to lure its former intelligence officer Saad Al-Jabri, who is in Canada and has sensitive documents related to Riyadh politics, to travel to Turkey.”
The newspaper emphasized that “these documents reveal the existence of a network of billions of dollars that has contributed to the enrichment of senior officials of the Saudi government.”
According to the newspaper, “Al-Jabri’s family believes that Riyadh wants to return him because he knows the secrets of the royal family,” noting that “Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has a personal revenge on him because of the differences between them.”
On the other hand, Riyadh accuses former security official Saad al-Jabri of embezzling $ 11 billion in anti-terror funds for which he was responsible between 2001 and 2015.
Al-Jabri was removed in 2015 from his post as a counterintelligence officer in the Saudi Ministry of the Interior. Al-Jabri, close to Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, fled the kingdom in 2017 when the latter was ousted from power in favor of Mohammed bin Salman, and settled in the Toronto area, where he lives under protection.
He filed a complaint on August 7, accusing Mohammed bin Salman of sending a team of agents to Canada to liquidate him in late 2018, shortly after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey.
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