Secret documents confirm Jamal Khashoggi’s hitmen used Saudi monarchy planes

The assassin team that traveled to Istanbul and killed and dismembered the journalist Jamal Khashoggi came to Turkey with two private jets of the Saudi monarchy, according to classified documents to which the chain 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 owned these planes. The files, classified as “very secretAnd with the signature of a Saudi minister, they indicate that the expropriation was instructed by the de facto leader of the kingdom.

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

The documents, which are another link between the murder and the monarchy, were presented by a group of companies owned by the Saudi state in a case against a former senior intelligence officer, Saad Aljabri, who accused the prince of trying murder. in Canada with another squad 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 through the Wall Street Journal in 2018, based on unidentified sources.

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

The CIA has directly linked the Crown Prince to the murder, and he has accepted overall responsibility as leader of his country, but denies any personal connection.

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

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