Ever planned to murder a former king? Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed was assassinated by former senior intelligence officials

The Paper's reporter Nan Boyi trainee reporter Zhu Runyu

Recently, Saad Aljabri, a former senior Saudi intelligence official, revealed that the current Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, had planned to poison the country's predecessor, Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud. However, the Saudi government denies this.

According to Bloomberg reported on the 25th, Jabri said that the current Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed said at a meeting in 2014 that he had a plan to poison the sixth king Abdullah. The meeting was secretly videotaped, and Jabri knew where copies of the video were hidden.

In an interview with CBS, Jabri revealed that Mohammed had said he held a "ring of poison from Russia" at the time. Such rings contained poison, so if worn, Muhammad could poison Abdullah through what he claimed to be a "handshake." "Whether Muhammad was joking or not, he did say it, and we took it seriously."

He also said that the reason Muhammad wanted to do so was to help his father, the current king, Salman bin Abdulaziz, succeed to the throne as soon as possible. The previous king, Abdullah, died of illness in 2015 and was succeeded by Salman, who remains king today.

Mr. Jabri served as deputy to Former Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef. However, in 2017 Bin Nayef's crown prince status was abolished and his cousin Mohammed bin Salman was made the new crown prince. At the time, Jabri thought he might be "in trouble", so he traveled to Canada and settled there. In Jabri's view, he may well have been killed one day, because the current crown prince, Mohammed, thinks "he knows too much".

Still, the Saudi government denied Mr. Gabriel's remarks, "Mr. Al-Jabri has long been fabricating facts that he is an untrustworthy former intelligence official." The reason he did this was because he wanted to cover up the economic crimes he had committed. ”

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