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The Istanbul Prosecutor General’s Office issued a further indictment for the murder of journalist Cemal Kaşıkçı, who was not heard from again after he entered the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on October 2, 2018 and was later revealed to have been killed. In the second indictment, the names of 6 Saudi suspects, 2 of whom are consular employees, were included. In the 41-page indictment, the consular officer suspected of having participated in the murder of Cemal Kaşıkçı, Deputy Consul Sultan Yahya A. and Yasir Halit M., who were involved in the murder of the fire, was ordered to aggravated life in prison for “murder by design and torture with a monstrous feeling”.
The suspects Ahmet Abdulaziz M., Khalid Yahya M., Muhammed İbrahim A. and Obaid Gazi A. were asked to be sentenced from 6 months to 5 years for the crime of “destroying, concealing and modifying or modifying criminal evidence”.
4 SUSPECT ARRIVES IN ISTANBUL AFTER THE MURDER
The prosecution recorded that 4 suspects other than 2 members of the consular staff arrived in Istanbul after the team that killed Cemal Kaşıkçı. The suspects were said to have arrived in Istanbul on October 10 and 11, 2018, in groups of two. The suspects in question were said to have erased, concealed and destroyed criminal evidence at the scene of the incident following the murder of Cemal Kaşıkçı.
REQUESTED TO JOIN THE LEAD CASE
The prosecution was sent to the 11th Higher Criminal Court in Istanbul, where the 20 defendants who killed Cemal Kaşıkçı were tried in his absence. In the main case, while Cemal Kaşıkçı’s fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, was the “complainant”, there were 20 Saudi defendants, 2 of whom were instigators. Aggravated life imprisonment is required on the charge of “instigating to kill by designing and tormenting with monstrous sentiment” the defendants Ahmet Bin Muhammed El Asırı and Saud Al Kahtani, who gave instructions to carry out the act of killing Cemal Kaşıkçı .
From the beginning, aggravated life imprisonment is required for 18 defendants, who acted with consensus and a joint criminal decision to take the victim to Saudi Arabia, to kill if they do not agree, planning and dividing the work in all the details of the action , and strangling Cemal Kaşıkçı. . While the investigation of 20 accused was being carried out, the Interpol Department issued an arrest warrant and a red notice and extradition requests were issued to be sent to the judicial authorities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The first hearing in the case, which was held on July 3, will be held on November 24.
