Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Activists on social media circulated excerpts from the records of the appeal session of the case of the former Saudi security advisor, Saad Al-Jabri, which was held on Friday, and brought against him by the “Sakub” company.
(To hear the full audio recording of the session) and published on the official website of the First Circuit of the US Courts of Appeals.
And the American courthousenews website, which specializes in judicial affairs, stated: “The First Circuit investigated allegations of concession by a Saudi spy official (Saad al-Jabri) who said that he would inadvertently disclose sensitive intelligence information, endangering American lives, if he was forced to explain where he obtained 3.5 A billion dollars that a holding company (SCP) accused of embezzling.
CNN in Arabic contacted the Saudi authorities for comment without a response at the time of writing this report.
It is reported that in August 2021, the US Department of Justice took an “extremely rare step” by interfering in a Saudi lawsuit against Al-Jabri, in order to “protect intelligence secrets that may harm US national security.”
The Justice Department said that if the case were allowed to go to trial, it could lead to “the disclosure of information likely to harm the national security of the United States.” It added that it was considering using the state secrets privilege, which would allow the US government to block information that harms national security. A final decision will be made by the end of this month.
The Saudi Holding Group “Sakb”, owned by the Kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, had filed embezzlement cases against Al-Jabri, first in Canada and then the United States. The group of Saudi companies that brought cases against Al-Jabri, according to the US Department of Justice file, was established “for the purpose of conducting counter-terrorism activities.”
Al-Jabri denies the accusations and claims that Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent an assassination squad to Canada to try to kill him and detain two of his sons in Saudi Arabia. Al-Jabri fled to Canada in 2017, after serving as a security advisor to former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef. He played a prominent role in combating terrorism and is widely respected by American intelligence and counterterrorism officials, who are credited with saving hundreds, perhaps thousands, of American lives.
It is reported that a source close to the family of Saad Al-Jabri, said in a special statement to CNN in Arabic, last May, that he had made an offer to end the “legal battle” with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and settle financial disputes, in exchange for the release of his son Omar and his daughter Sarah. detainees in Saudi Arabia.
The source close to al-Jabri’s family continued, “If the Saudi government does not accept this offer, after a US federal court rejected the corruption allegations against Dr. Saad, it will prove that the financial allegations were just a false pretext to get away from the continued intimidation of Dr. Saad and his family.”