DUBAI: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's new title of prime minister, announced this week, could prove more significant abroad than inside the kingdom where he already wields enormous power. T
, announced this week, could prove more significant abroad than inside the kingdom where he already wields enormous power.
The 37-year-old de facto ruler of the world's biggest crude exporter has been targeted in multiple such lawsuits in recent years, notably over the 2018in the kingdom's Istanbul consulate, which temporarily turned him into a pariah in the West. Human rights activists and government critics immediately speculated this week that making Prince Mohammed prime minister was a bald-faced attempt to strengthen the immunity claim and skirt legal exposure.
That complaint accuses Prince Mohammed of trying to lure Jabri back to Saudi Arabia from exile in Canada - then, when that didn't work,"deploying a hit squad" to kill him on Canadian soil, a plot foiled when most of the would-be assailants were turned back at the border.
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