Turkey searches the Saudi prince's villa "near" Khashoggi's remains: reports

Ankara: One of the villas searched by Turkish police regarding the remains of the murdered journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, belonged to a friend of the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, reported on Tuesday

investigators who used sniffer dogs Drones searched the residence of the Saudi businessman and an adjacent villa during a 10 am Monday survey in Yalova province (northwest from the country), the Hurriyet daily reported.

Officers inspected three wells located in the villa's gardens, Hurriyet reported, according to the DHA news agency. there were claims that the buildings were illegal.
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The villa belongs to Mohammed Ahmed al-Fawzan after buying the land on which it is built in 2014, reported the news agency.
Hurriyet described Fawzan as a "close friend" of Prince Mohammed.

In a video posted on the newspaper's website, you could see large portraits of Crown Prince and King Salman hanging on the wall of the villa.

The second The villa belonged to a company called Omary Tourism Gida, reported the DHA agency.

Khashoggi, a contributor to the Washington Post, was strangled and dismembered by a team of 15 Saudi officials after going to the Istanbul consulate in Riyadh on Oct. 2. [19659004] Khashoggi's body was not found although the police searched the consulate, the Consul General's residence and a forest in Istanbul.

It was reported that Khashoggi's body had been cut and dissolved in an acid.

The pro-government media have been mutilated. traces of acid have been found in the consulate sewers.

The Istanbul prosecutor responsible for the investigation announced Monday that one of the Saudi suspects, Mansour Othman Mr. Abahussain, had talked on the phone with Fawzan. A day before the badbadination of Khashoggi.

Fawzan was not in Turkey at the time, but the prosecutor thought that the phone call was aimed at finding a way to remove or hide Khashoggi's body after his dismemberment.

The Turkish authorities did not state that Fawzan was in any way connected with the murder and did not reveal any information regarding what was found in the two villas.

After weeks of denial, Riyadh admitted that Khashoggi, 59, was killed in an unauthorized operation. , denying that the crown prince ordered his death.

A former insider turned dissident, Khashoggi wrote critical editorials about the kingdom and compared the Crown Prince with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Saudi government ordered the badbadination but insisted that King Salman was not to blame.