Secret documents confirm Jamal Khashoggi’s assassins used Saudi monarchy plane

The assassin squad that went to Istanbul and killed and dismembered the journalist Jamal Khashoggi came to Turkey using two private jets belonging to the Saudi monarchy, according to secret documents to which the channel had access CNN.

Less than a year before the heinous crime, the crown prince himself, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered the confiscation of a company that had these planes among its assets. Files, classified as “Top secretAnd bear the signature of a Saudi minister, they indicate that the expropriation was ordered by the de facto head of the kingdom.

CNN reported that the text was filed in a Canadian civil suit earlier this year and gives details of the transfer of Sky Prime Aviation, which passed into the hands of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund at the end of 2017 for an amount of $ 400,000 million.

The documents, which are another link between the murder and the monarchy, were presented by a group of Saudi state-owned companies, in a case against a former senior intelligence official, Saad Aljabri, who accused the prince of attempt to kill him. in Canada with another team just days after the murder of Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington post.

The connection data of the Gulfstream ships used by the hitmen had already been put forward by the the Wall Street newspaper in 2018, based on unidentified sources.

Now the evidence comes at a time when Saudi Arabia is back in the spotlight after The United States will announce the upcoming release of a previously classified dossier on Bin Salman’s alleged link to the murder of the Saudi dissident.

The CIA directly linked the crown prince to the assassination and he has accepted overall responsibility, as head of his country, but denies a personal connection.

In any case, its image has fallen sharply internationally. The White House has said President Joe Biden will speak to King Salman, not his son, during his first phone call to Saudi leaders.

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