Jamal Khashoggi's children received homes in Saudi Arabia and monthly payments in compensation for his father's murder

The journalist's children Saudi murdered Jamal Khashoggi they received multi-million dollar homes in the kingdom and monthly payments Five figures in compensation for the murder of his father, according to current and former Saudi officials, as well as relatives.

The two sons and daughters of Khashoggi could also receive much larger payments, possibly from tens of millions of dollars each, in the context of the negotiations ofblood debt"They should happen when Khashoggi's killers' trials end in the coming months, according to officials and other people who spoke under the guise of anonymity to discuss sensitive conversations.

Saudi Arabia has sought a long-term deal with members of the Khashoggi family, whose payments were not disclosed earlier. ensure that they continue to exercise restraint in their public statements on the murder of his father by Saudi agents in Istanbul six months ago, officials said.

The khashoggi brothers they refrained from severely criticizing the kingdom, even when his father's death provoked worldwide indignation and widespread condemnation of the heir to the Saudi throne, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

King Salman approved at the end of last year the provision of housing and monthly payments equal or greater than US $ 10,000 per brother, as part of what a former manager has qualified as recognition "a great injustice was committed"and an attempt"modify an error"

But the royal family also relies on its wealth to limit the consequences of the murder and dismemberment of the prominent journalist and Saudi columnist of the Saudi newspaper. Washington Post, who he has become a target for articles that often criticize the government.

A Saudi official said the payments corresponded to the country's old practice of providing financial badistance to victims of violent crimes or even natural disasters and rejected the claim that the Khashoggi family would be forced to remain silent. . "This support is part of our custom and our culture"said the official.This is not related to anything else"

As part of their preliminary agreement, the children of Khashoggi received in Jeddah homes worth up to USD 4,000,000 each. The properties are part of a shared compound in which Salah Khashoggi, the eldest son, occupies the main structure.

A banker in Jeddah, Salah, is the only brother of Khashoggi who intends to continue to live in Saudi Arabia, according to relatives of the family. The others reside in the United States and they are supposed to sell their new Saudi properties.

Salah, who is responsible for financial talks with the Saudi authorities, declined to comment on the deal when he was contacted by phone on Monday. His desire to stay in Jeddah with his family helped to Brothers' deference to the authorities and caution in their public statements in the last six months.

In October, the Saudi government published photos of Salah shakes hands with Muhammad, an image that was to show the Crown Prince offering his condolences, but which was considered an indication of the coercive power that the royal family exercised on the children of Jamal Khashoggi.

The two girls of the writer, Noha Khashoggi and Razan Jamal Khashoggi, they published an essay in The Washington Post Last year, they described their father's hopes of change in Saudi Arabia, while stressing that "he was not dissenting" and they did not accuse the Crown Prince or other Saudi officials of being guilty in his death.

Noha did not respond to a request for comment and Razan could not be reached.

The monthly payment schedule and the possibility of multi-million dollar liquidations give the Khashoggis a long-term financial incentive for stay quieteven when human rights organizations and critics of Saudi Arabia continue to claim responsibility for the kingdom.

The publisher of the Washington PostFred Ryan, released a statement Monday six months after the death of Jamal Khashoggi, claiming that the Saudis "have adopted a strategy of escape"who has" deceived the indispensable officials, who seek to smother the international fury during the organization of a fake trial"

Khashoggi's second son, Abdullah, declined to comment on his arrival on Monday. William Taylor, a Washington lawyer who represented the family, also refused to discuss any compensation that the family has received.

The negotiations with the family were led by the outgoing ambbadador of Saudi Arabia to the United States, Khalid bin Salman, brother of the Crown Prince.

The CIA concluded with a "medium to high confidence" that Mohammed had ordered the badbadination of Khashoggi, but the president Trump refused to accept the verdict on a close ally saying, "Maybe he did it, maybe not".

Saudi officials have strongly denied Muhammad's participation, describing the murder as murder. dishonest operation led by a team that wanted to control Khashoggi and bring him back to Riyadh, but that killed him after a fight at the consulate of Istanbul. Khashoggi arrived at the diplomatic facilities to gather the necessary documents to remarry.

US intelligence agencies, which rely in part on the spy team placed by the Turkish government at the Saudi Arabian consulate, have concluded that Khashoggi was strangled or suffocated.

Saudi officials have yet to explain what happened to Khashoggi's body. It is believed that his killers dismembered him and disappeared. Officials who heard the sound of the operation said that one of the Saudi agents, who has experience in the field of forensics at crime scenes, can be heard to warn other agents to play the game. full volume music Mask the sound of an electrical appliance.

Saudi authorities announced investigations of 21 people in relation to the murder of Khashoggi, including Saud al-Qahtani, an executor of the Crown Prince's alleged orchestrating operation against Khashoggi.

Prosecutors seek to death penalty for five agents who traveled from
Riyadh in Istanbul and they were at the consulate when Khashoggi was killed. Among them are Maher Mutreb, a former Saudi intelligence colonel who met Khashoggi while they were both working at the Saudi Arabian Embbady in London.

If men are sentenced and sentenced to death, the Saudi judicial system could allow members of the Khashoggi family to clemency to the murderers of his father as part of a "blood debt" agreement in which they could be entitled to dozens of millions of dollars.

It is not clear whether Khashoggi's children should forgive or absolve killers for collecting payments.

Former Saudi officials and experts have said that the royal court and the government were encouraged to seek such an agreement and avoid a situation in which only low-level agents are executed for his role in a conspiracy that has been developed and orchestrated by the highest levels of government.

The question of knowing where to go for protect his father's inheritance This has been a source of tension for the Khashoggi brothers, according to relatives of the family. The girls sometimes insisted on being more frank about their father's life and the cruelty of the kingdom, while the brothers focused on maximize the amount of money that the family will raise.

At one point in the weeks after the death of his father, Abdullah Khashoggi he told councilors who were working with the family that he wanted to punish the royal court by searching for one of the most valuable property of the crown prince. "I want da Vinci"he said, referring to a painting of the master of the Renaissance for which the Crown Prince paid USD 450 million in 2017.

Souad Mekhennet contributed to this report.