There were also suspicions about Prince Bin Salman for the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in October 2018, in Istanbul.
The Saudi Crown Prince, Mohamed bin Salman, suggested in 2014 poisoning King Abdullah bin Abdelaziz, who died in 2015, said the former Saudi Minister of State and head of Intelligence Saad Al Yabri.
In an interview broadcast Sunday night on the US network CBS, Al Yabri said that Bin Salmán spoke in 2014 with his cousin, Prince Mohamed bin Nayef, at the time Minister of the Interior, about this possibility.
“Told him: I want to assassinate King Abdullah, I got a poisonous ring in Russia. I just need a handshake to do it”, Assured the former head of Intelligence about Bin Salmán’s words to Bin Nayef.
According to the interviewee, the The conversation was private, although it was recorded on video, and he claimed to know where the two copies of said recording are located.
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King Abdullah died in 2015 at the age of 90 and was succeeded by his brother Salmán bin Abdulaziz, father of Mohamed bin Salmán, who originally named Bin Nayef crown prince.
In 2017 the monarch dismissed Bin Nayef as heir and named Bin Salman. Bin Nayef also lost his post as Interior Minister.
Al Yabri, who had been a close associate of Bin Nayef, fled to Canada when the previous crown prince was deposed.
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In August last year, he filed a lawsuit in the United States against Bin Salmán, whom he accused of having sent a “squad” to Canada to assassinate him.
In his complaint, Al Yabri maintains that the crown prince ordered the deployment of Saudi agents in North America to find out his whereabouts, and when he was finally found in Canada, he sent a group of 50 people to kill him, two weeks after the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal. Khashoggi, in October 2018, in Istanbul. (I)
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