The men who killed Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi flew in private jets owned by a company recently seized by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, CNN reported, citing documents seen by the network.
The documents were reportedly labeled “Top Secret” and filed in connection with a Canadian civil suit. In documents read by CNN, a Saudi minister issued an order from the Crown Prince to “immediately approve the completion of the necessary procedures for” the transfer of ownership of Sky Prime Aviation.
The document outlined a procedure by which ownership of the company would be transferred to the country’s sovereign wealth fund in 2017, which the Crown Prince presides over. The killers then used the jets to kill Khashoggi in October 2018, according to CNN.
Khashoggi died in Istanbul, Tukey, in 2018, after being ambushed at the Saudi consulate and quartered.
Mohammed bin Salman “would be tracking [the company] and would know how it was used, “Dan Hoffman, the former director of the CIA’s Middle East Division, told the network.” And it’s just more potential evidence that he knew it. That has always been restraint. This is just further evidence of this. “
“Any evidence that basically links [Mohammed bin Salman] and others, especially directly, which we believe it is, is extremely important, ”Faisal Gill, who represents Khashoggi’s ex-fiancee in a federal lawsuit against the Crown Prince and several co-defendants, told CNN.
Numerous intelligence agencies, including the CIA, concluded that the Crown Prince ordered the death of the Washington Post journalist.
Bin Salman continued to deny having given the order, but said he was “responsible” for Khashoggi’s death. The Biden government is expected to release a report on the murder in the near future, possibly later this week.
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The Hill contacted the Saudi embassy in Washington for comment.