Saudi Arabia's King Salman sacked two royals and named them alongside four other military officers as targets of a Defense Ministry corruption investigation, in a royal decree issued Tuesday September 1 and relayed by the official press.
According to the decree, Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has been removed from his post as commander of the joint forces of the Saudi coalition, which operates in Yemen.
His son, Prince Abdulaziz ben Fahd, has been relieved of his post of deputy governor of the Al Jouf region.
The decision is based on a letter from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the anti-corruption commission asking it to investigate "suspicious financial transactions at the Ministry of Defense," the royal document said.
After being named heir to the throne in 2017, Mohammed bin Salman, known as "MBS", launched a massive anti-corruption campaign which saw a large number of royals, ministers and businessmen be detained at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh.
Most of them were released after concluding agreements with the Wahhabi kingdom, the terms of which were not disclosed.
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