Key Sentence:
- Saudi Arabia’s heir to the throne has proposed killing the late King Abdullah with a “poisoned ring,” said a former senior Saudi intelligence official.
- In an interview, Saad al-Jabri tell Mohammed bin Salman told his cousin in 2014 that he wanted to free his father’s throne.
During the inheritance, there was tension in the ruling family. The Saudi government has labeled Jabri a discredited former team member with a long manufacturing history. He claimed that at a meeting in 2014, the prince offered his cousin, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, then interior minister, to arrange for King Abdullah’s assassination.
Inscription image, Mohammed bin Salman (left) succeeding Mohammed bin Nayef (right) as heir to the throne in 2017.”He said to him, ‘I want to kill King Abdullah. I got the poison ring from Russia. So I need to shake his hand, and he’s done,” said Pak Jabri.
“If he’s just bragging… that’s what he’s saying, and we’re taking it seriously.”
He said the matter was resolve privately in the royal court. But he add that the meeting was filme secretly, and he knew where the two copies of the video were. Abdullah die in 2015 at the age of 90 and was succeess by his half-brother Salman, the father of Mohammed bin Salman. Who appointed Mohammed bin Nayef as heir to the throne.
In 2017 Mohammed bin Nayef was succeess as heir to the throne by Mohammed bin Salman. He also lost his role as Interior Minister and was reportedly placed under house arrest. Before being arrested on unspecified charges last year.
Jabri fled to Canada after Mohammed bin Nayef was ouste.
An interview that he had been warned by a friend from the Middle East Intelligence Service. That Mohammed bin Salman sent a team to kill him in October 2018, just days after Saudi agents killed Saudi dissident Jamal Hashoghi in Turkey. He claimed a team of six people landed at Ottawa Airport but were deported. After Customs discovered they were carrying “suspicious DNA analysis.”
Last year, Jabri accused the heir to the throne of attempted murder in a civil suit in US federal court.
The prince denied the accusations. He also denied involvement in the killing of Jamal Hashoghi, although US intelligence said he approved of the operation. Inscription image, King Abdullah (front left) was succeess by his half-brother Salman (right) after he died in 2015 aged 90.
In a statement sent of CBS, the Saudi embassy in Washington described Jabri as a “discredited former civil servant of a long history of creating and diverting attention to cover up his family’s billion-dollar crimes. ” Jabri has been charged with corruption by various Saudi agencies, and a Canadian judge has frozen his property because there is “huge evidence of fraud.”
He denies being king of government funds and says his former employer has generously rewarded him. In March 2020, Saudi authorities arrested Jabri Omar’s son and daughter. Sarah, in an apparent attempt to force him to return of Saudi Arabia, according to human rights groups.
Last November, two months after their father tried the heir to the throne, a Saudi court of nine or nations ruled the brothers and sisters. They denied the accusations. The appeals court upheld their decision in a secret hearing, which they did not attend.