Prince Alwaleed Moved To Highest Security Saudi Prison After Refusing To Pay $6 Billion For Freedom: Report

Goodbye Ritz Carlton. Saudi Arabia's billionaire prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, has been carted off to Al Ha'ir prison, south of Riyadh, after refusing to pay  a reported $6 billion to Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to secure his freedom, following a massive consolidation of power on November 4, 2017 in which over 300 princes, ministers and other elites were rounded up in an "anti-corruption" purge.

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Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal

Sources told the Middle East Montior  that nearly 60 detainees were transferred to the most high security prison in the Kingdom. The prisoners include Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal as Prince Turki Bin Abdullah and a number of government officials who refused to make the large financial payments for their release.

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Al'hair prison

Among those arrested on allegations of corruption is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, the Saudi King's nephew who is worth more than $17bn according to Forbes, and owns stakes in Twitter, Lyft and Citigroup. According to a Daily Mail source, the crown prince had lulled Alwaleed into a false sense of security, inviting him to a meeting at his Al Yamamah palace, then sent officers to arrest him the night before the meeting.

'Suddenly at 2.45am all his guards were disarmed, the royal guards of MBS storm in,' said the source.

'He's dragged from his own bedroom in his pajamas, handcuffed, put in the back of an SUV, and interrogated like a criminal.

'They hung them upside down, just to send a message.

Purged princes and the like were taken to the Riydah Ritz Carlton Hotel, where they have reportedly been allowed to buy their freedom by giving up their billions in oil wealth for their lives.

 

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Purged Royals inside Riydah Ritz Carlton

As the Daily Mail reported in November, mercenaries purportedly employed by Academi - a successor to infamous US security contractor Blackwater, have been stringing up some of MBS’s “guests” at the Riyadh Ritz Carlton by their feet and savagely beating them during interrogations. The claims have spread rapidly on Arabic-language social media, and even Lebanon’s president Michel Aoun has accused MbS of using mercenaries.

Meanwhile, none of Prince Alwaleed's powerful friends appear to be coming to his defense. As CNBC points out:

One of the most stunning aspects of bin Talal's detention is how quiet his long list of influential friends have been about it. This week brought at least some mention of his plight with a statement from two former French presidents who expressed concern over Alwaleed's status. But let's face it: a few words from a couple of French ex-presidents is peanuts.

So now we have bin Alwaleed in an actual prison, with a government aggressively taking cash and assets, and still no significant outcry from his foreign friends.

Bin Salman came to power last summer after King Salman changed the order of succession and made Bin Salman crown prince. In addition to his "anti-corruption" puge to consolidate power and wealth, the country has embarked on an ambitious plan called "Vision 2030"- which aims to modernize Saudi Arabia and break its dependence on oil production, as well as combat human rights violations.

 

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In late September,  Saudi Arabia took the unprecedented step of allowing women to drive“The royal decree will implement the provisions of traffic regulations, including the issuance of driving licenses for men and women alike,” the Saudi Press Agency said, according to Al Aribaya

Meanwhile, A Saudi Government panel has asked that all marriage contracts for girls under the age of 18 be approved by family courts - the latest step in a series of sweeping reforms under the lead of their new Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman. While falling short of outlawing child marriage, the request marks the first major legislation involving the long-standing practice primarily overseen by Saudi clerics and local judges - not family courts.

The proposed legislation was part of a series of recommendations by the Committee of Islamic and Judiciary Affairs last Monday, which also called for "competent" family courts to oversee premarital virginity tests for girls under 18.

“The committee acceded to have those under 18 submit their marriage contracts, as well as a pre-marital tests to a competent court to determine their case" -Councilwoman Dr. Eqbal Darandari

“Some Shoura members disagreed with this decision because they believed it meant we condone underage marriage," said Darandari, adding "Others suggested that only those between the ages of 16-18 can transfer their cases to a judge, and those below 16 cannot get married. Some members demanded this be applied to underage boys, as well.

Dr. Darandari is among several Saudi legislators who believe in an an age limit for underage girls' to marry. "Girls’ voices must be heard and their opinions taken into consideration. I don’t believe a pre-marital test is enough. In my opinion, I think we need a female committee — made of a doctor, lawyer, psychologist and social worker — that studies the girl’s state in order to assess whether or not she can get married.

She also warned of the damage which can occur to children who are forced into marriage.

Those that are fifteen or younger can undergo severe physical and psychological damage through marriageand they’re probably unequipped for it. I believe there should be sanctions to those who do not adhere to that, and in the case of a marriage during that delicate age, a girl’s right to demand a divorce if things don’t work out should be guaranteed.” -Dr. Eqbal Darandari

So there you have it - Bin Salman is attempting to modernize his country, while wrestling power from long-standing oil families. And for those who don't comply, it's off to prison where the beatings shall continue until morale improves.

h/t iBankCoin.com

Comments

tmosley Jan 14, 2018 10:17 AM Permalink

I think he offered to give them EVERYTHING, but they didn't want to accept it.

He will be tortured to death in prison for attempting to murder the former prince now King of Saudi, with the full consent of the President of the United States of America because a bunch of US citizens died as a result.

Pity we can't just talk about this shit out in public. I don't like cloak and dagger bullshit. Realpolitik is better.

tmosley IH8OBAMA Jan 14, 2018 11:38 AM Permalink

Nah, he will just encourage more secularism. The ME was at one time pretty damn secular and thus not so bad. It was their funding of fundamentalist Madrassas that really got the Islamists roiling.

It would be nice if they would abandon Islam altogether, or convert to Christianity.

Also, I don't think anyone believed it, and very few believe it not. It's just they got killed if they didn't pretend. With Christianity, the punishment for non-belief is just a little social isolation.

We really need to have free philosophy lessons open to the public on Sundays. Something to fill the void for those who choose not to espouse belief.

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jcaz BokkeDavola Jan 14, 2018 2:11 PM Permalink

Alwaleed has always been Bill Clinton's butt-buddy-  the fact that the prince is now days from having his head lopped off shows that Bill has lost his pull....  Prince dumped a lot of the family's money into Bill's pockets.....

Oh well, you're only as good as your last trade, dude-   so how's that Qatar slush fund looking now, Bill?

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jeff montanye BokkeDavola Jan 14, 2018 2:14 PM Permalink

what tmoseley says below is so very true. so true that it's hard to believe that "they have reportedly been allowed to buy their freedom by giving up their billions in oil wealth for their lives." are there interviews with such people or do they also sign agreements like the one loretta lynch forced on the uranium one mole/whistleblower? hard to believe that all the money in switzerland, singapore, et. al. that may be beyond mbs's reach can't buy a hit on him that actually works, as opposed to the crazy clowns of las vegas.

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sarz IH8OBAMA Jan 14, 2018 1:25 PM Permalink

Busy at the Herzliya troll farm, Shlomo?They gave you five IDs did they, you lucky Talmudist. Your high prayer of the year is Kol Nidre, right, the only one for which you stand up, and where you ask for permission to lie and cheat for the coming year.

The Saudi family are Iraqi Jews, and their doctrine of fake Islam, Wahhabism, was cobbled together by a Donmeh, a Turkish crypto-Jew, Abdul Wahhab.

There's a constant stream of Judaic poison onto ZeroHedge and a few other free speech sites, from you and your tribal kin. You've had the NSA to yourselves for quite a while. But imagine what might be in store if Americans are keeping score for themselves past your transparent proxy servers. 

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jeff montanye PrivetHedge Jan 14, 2018 2:23 PM Permalink

much of the old testament and some of the new and most of the history of organized religion are vulnerable on this count. if one just sees the current middle east through the prism of the thirty years war, the spanish inquisition, or the conquest of the belgian congo or the americas, all that pride and confidence in western values vanishes like the u.s. constitution after 9-11.

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NiggaPleeze TBT or not TBT Jan 14, 2018 3:01 PM Permalink

Congress voted to move our embassy there over a decade ago.  Whose law do you speak of?

It's called the UN Charter, it's a treaty and the US is bound by it; hence, under the US Constitution, the act of moving the embassy to illegally occupied territories is unlawful.

Sure we have a lot of corrupt swamp toadies in Congress serving their ((masters)) in violation of international law time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time ... and time again.  But that doesn't mean that what these corrupt critters do is legal.  Check the US Constitution.

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Posa Luc X. Ifer Jan 14, 2018 11:24 AM Permalink

Aside from a few Congressmen and Senators from both parties (Jones, Bob Graham, Lynch) the 9/11 coverup was a bi-partisan effort, starting with Dubya Bush et al, especially Robert Mueller.... If Drump had any brains he'd get Mueller indicted for 9/11 (Mueller stashed away the FBI Informant Shaikh who provided money, housing etc to some of the 9/11 hijackers ... Mueller also lied that the FBI wasn't trailing Atta and the Sarasota, FL al Q cell..

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Expendable Container Posa Jan 14, 2018 2:24 PM Permalink

So you believe the official narrative that a man in a cave on the other side of the world masterminded the perfect demolition of the twin tours on 9/11?? Then please explain how BUILDING 7 also came down in the perfect demolition.

What about the 'laughing Israelis' caught filming the event, being let off scott free, and saying in Israel on TV later that 'we were only there to  document the event' - how could they be sent there to document the event if they did not know ahead of time? It has also been disproved that a plane could have possibly hit the pentagon in that position. It was a missile.

And what about the large number of Israeli spies caught in the U.S. spying at that time and released back to Israel while the MSM ignored this treachery?

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jeff montanye Expendable Container Jan 14, 2018 2:41 PM Permalink

all good questions but i don't think those mossad guys said they were there only (boy i miss italics) to document the event. you can watch them (better if you speak hebrew) in the voltaire link i supply above.

it is hard to believe that so many are so willing to be accessories to murder and treason, especially after the fact, but as sherlock holmes observed, once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

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AlaricBalth Dilluminati Jan 14, 2018 11:14 AM Permalink

Alwaleed was also a major investor in Marc Rich's Glencore IPO in 2011. Alwaleed invested $400 million. 

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/prince-alwaleed-says-400m-invested-in-gl…

Marc Rich, an international fugitive, was pardoned shortly before Bill Clinton left office in 1999

James Comey was the lead investigator in charge of looking into the Clinton pardon. 

"In 2002, Comey, then a federal prosecutor, took over an investigation into President Bill Clinton's 2001 pardon of financier Marc Rich, who had been indicted on a laundry list of charges before fleeing the country. The decision set off a political firestorm focused on accusations that Rich's ex-wife Denise made donations to the Democratic Party, the Clinton Library and Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign as part of a plan to get Rich off the hook. Comey ultimately decided not to pursue the case."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/politics/who-is-james-comey-fbi-director-…

Former FBI Director James Comey sat on the board of banking giant HSBC.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213

The same Banking Giant that launders drug cartel money. And has been caught, charged and fined for doing so.

https://investments.hsbc.co.uk/news/company/24989264/glencore-gallops-higher-as-liberum-bullish-on-china-s-coal-policy

HSBC is also responsible for many of Glencore's investments. Again, Glencore was founded by the criminal Marc Rich, who paid for a pardon by former President Bill Clinton. A pardon which was investigated by James Comey, who sat on the board of HSBC, which laundered drug cartel money, and did business with a company that worked intimately with drug traffickers. Comey found "No evidence of criminal activity."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/786646253358768128

Wikileaks has shown us Alwaleed and Qatar, Glencore investors TIED to Joule Unlimited and John Podesta, and thus in multiple directions James Comey, The Clintons, and the democrats. And Qatar Gave Bill Clinton $1 million for a 5 minute meeting in 2011

$1 million for a five minute meeting in 2011? Didn't Gadaffi fall in 2011? Didn't Alwaleed invest $400 million into Glencore in 2011? Didn't Glencore begin trading Libyan Oil in 2011?

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loveyajimbo BaBaBouy Jan 14, 2018 1:05 PM Permalink

Hillapig might have said something... but she knows she soon will be in prison too... with HER assets all confiscated... I can only hope they will hang her upside down and beat her too...

But be careful... that stench will be weapons-grade...

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