A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Saudi-affiliated company against a former Saudi intelligence official in United States.
According to Pak Sahafat news agency report from Reuters on Friday, the judge ruled that the complaint could not be heard because of the US government’s use of one of its powers to prevent the release of classified information.
According to Reuters, the decision is a defeat for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a legal battle against Saad al-Jabri, who has previously worked with the United States in the fight against terrorism.
Explaining the reason for the rejection of the case, Nathanil Gorton, a judge of the Massachusetts District Court, said: The court cannot issue a ruling for the Saudi holding company Sakap without the use of documents and information that the US government considers to be state secrets.
The court also declined to comment on al-Jabri’s lawsuit against the state-owned holding company Skop, citing lack of access to government secret documents.
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Scape and nine Saudi companies have filed a lawsuit against al-Jabri, claiming that he led a project for which he embezzled $ 3.5 billion while acting as an adviser to former Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bennayev.
Saad al-Jabri, former Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, was a national security adviser at the Saudi Interior Ministry before bin Salman’s coup in June 2017.
Jaberi had claimed in a 2020 lawsuit in the United States that Canadian authorities had foiled a plot to assassinate him by a “killing squad” affiliated with Mohammed bin Salman. According to al-Jabri, the plot took place two weeks before the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashgeji at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. In September of this year, US Director of National Intelligence April Hines intervened in an unexpected move to prevent the release of confidential documents under the pretext of a judicial review of the case.