Turkish officials have claimed that Saudi Arabia had sent a team of experts to destroy evidence of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
According to the Reuters news agency, Turkish authorities have claimed that Saudi Arabia sent a ‘clean-up team’ to erase evidence just a week after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Turkish officials say that Saudi Arabia sent a two-person team of experts, one a chemist and the other a toxicologist, tasked with destroying evidence of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Turkish authorities have claimed that sending a team to erase evidence of the journalist’s murder is evidence that high-ranking Saudi officials knew about the crime, so the consulate and its residents were arrested before Turkish investigators entered the consulate. A team was sent to the area to destroy the evidence.
Turkish officials said an 11-member Saudi team, including two men identified as Ahmed Abdulaziz Al-Janoubi and Yahya al-Zahrani, came to Turkey to oversee Turkey’s investigation into the journalist’s murder.
Background of the Khashoggi murder case
Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist associated with the American newspaper Washington Post, went missing from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on October 2, 2018, after which it was confirmed that he was killed.
It was later admitted by Saudi Arabia that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed during a fight at the consulate in Istanbul.
According to the British media, after killing the Saudi journalist, his body was brutally dismembered, while Jamal Khashoggi’s body parts were found in the garden of the Saudi Consul General’s house a few days after his disappearance.
The Saudi court has ended the trial by sentencing 8 suspects involved in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to prison terms.
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2024-09-29 18:23:53
