Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – A former Saudi Arabian intelligence officer gave a testimony about Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS). He said that the prince had proposed to kill the king of Saudi Arabia before King Salman, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
In a testimony on a Canadian TV station CBS, a former intelligence officer named Saad Aljabri said MBS had planned to kill King Abdullah with a poison ring. The ring is manufactured in Russia.
“The crown prince, who became heir to the throne and de-facto ruler four years ago, said at the time he had a “poison ring from Russia” that could kill Abdullah by hand,” he was quoted as saying. Strait Times from Bloomberg, Tuesday (26/10/2021).
MBS’s father, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, ascended the throne after King Abdullah died in 2015 and remains the official ruler to this day. As a result of this confession. Riyadh reacted by calling Aljabri a human being full of distractions.
“Aljabri is a discredited former government official with a long history of fabricating and creating distractions to conceal financial crimes he allegedly committed,” the media wrote.
Aljabri is the right-hand man of Saudi Arabia’s former crown prince and interior minister, Prince Muhammad bin Nayef. Prince Muhammad is also known as a rival of MBS.
After MBS ascended the throne, Aljabri settled in Canada, where he lived in exile. He himself filed a federal lawsuit in Washington in 2020 accusing MBS of operating in the US to track him down and kill him.
Aljabri said MBS was afraid of the information he had. “I hope to die one day because this man will not rest until he sees me dead,” Aljabri told CBS.
MBS himself has served as the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia since 2017. He focuses on developing other sources of income besides oil, one of which is tourism.
The country underwent a change under MBS with a number of new policies ranging from modern cities, concert permits to bikinis in Saudi Arabia. But ‘MBS’ also launched a crackdown on dissent, detaining women’s rights activists, clerics and journalists.
A US intelligence report accused him of approving the brutal 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The UN special rapporteur cited the involvement of King Salman’s son.
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