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Saudi crown prince exonerated in Khashoggi murder: prosecutor

05:03 PM Nov 15, 2018 | Team Udayavani |

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor on Thursday exonerated Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, accusing two senior officials of giving the orders.

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A spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office denied Prince Mohammed had any knowledge of the killing inside the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate, in response to a journalist’s question.

The spokesman said the deputy chief of Saudi intelligence, General Ahmed al-Assiri, had given an order to force Khashoggi home — and “the head of the negotiating team” that flew to Istanbul had ordered his murder.

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