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Officers inspected three wells in the villa's gardens, officials said.
One of the villas searched by Turkish police in search of the remains of the murdered journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, belonged to a friend of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed
Investigators from the scene of crime using sniffer dogs and drones searched the Saudi businessman 's residence and an adjacent villa during a 10 – hour survey on Monday in Yalova province, in the north – east. west of the country, the Hurriyet daily reported.
Hurriyet inspected three wells in the villa's gardens, while the DHA news agency reported that the buildings were illegal.
The villa belongs to Mohammed Ahmed al-Fawzan after buying the land on which it was built in 2014.
Hurriyet described Fawzan as a "close friend" of Prince Mohammed.
In a shared video on the daily's website, large portraits of Crown Prince and King Salman. could be seen hanging on a wall inside the villa.
The second villa belonged to a company called Omary Tourism Gida, reported the DHA agency.
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Khashoggi, a contributor to The Washington Post, was arrested and murdered by a woman who died after going to the consulate from Istanbul to Riyadh on October 2nd.
Khashoggi's body was not found, although the police searched the consulate, the Consul General's residence and a forest in Istanbul.
Khashoggi's body was reportedly buried. and dissolved in acid.
Pro-Government media have claimed that traces of acid have been found in the consulate's sewers.
The Istanbul Attorney General, in charge of the investigation, announced Monday that one of the Saudi suspects, Mansour Othma n Mr. Abahussain spoke on the phone with Fawzan a day before the murder of Khashoggi.
Fawzan was not in Turkey at the time, but the prosecutor thought that the appeal was meant to find a way to remove or hide Khashoggi's body after it had been dismembered. . .
The Turkish authorities have not baderted that Fawzan was linked to the murder and did not disclose any information regarding what was found in the two villas.
After weeks of denial, Riyadh admitted Khashoggi, 59. , was killed in what he described as sneaky operation, refuting accusations that the Crown Prince would have ordered his death.
A former insider turned dissident, Khashoggi wrote critical editorials about the kingdom and compared the Crown Prince to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the killing was ordered by the highest authorities of the Saudi government, while insisting that King Salman was not to blame.
(With the exception of the title, this story was not changed by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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