The narco Saudi prince
By Olivier Guitta
Amazingly, the following story did not make it to our shores while there is a connection to a major US drug bust, to a Saudi royal and possibly to terrorism.
From The Croissant comes:
On March 28 started in Paris the trial of 53-year-old Saudi prince Nayef Bin Fawaz Al-Shaalan and 9 accomplices for an alleged cocaine traffic between Colombia and France. The prosecutor is seeking a ten-year sentence for Al Shaalan.
The prince will not be at the trial:
He does not leave Saudi Arabia anymore
A double international warrant (US and French) is active
The prince:
Denies any implication
Objects, saying this is an American plot
The prince has close ties to the Saudi royal family:
The potential connection to terrorism came from an investigative site www.geopolitique.com:
According to the site:
1- Al Shaalan told his Columbian partners that the money from the smuggling was to serve the Islamist cause.
2- Also the charter company that Al Shaalan was using is Skyways, owned by the Saudi National Commercial Bank, owned at that time by Khaled Bin Mahfuz.
One of the pilots of Skyways is none other than Pakistani Mohamed Tahsin who according to US sources is financially linked to September 11 hijacker Ahmed Al Ghamdi.
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