A Saudi official said on Friday night that discussions with Saudi citizen Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul had developed into a quarrel that led to his death.
"The issue of the disappearance of Jamal bin Ahmad Khashoggi has raised the interest of Saudi Arabia at the highest levels and the circumstances surrounding his disappearance. The Kingdom has taken the necessary steps to clarify the truth and has sent a security team to Turkey on October 6, 2018 for investigation and cooperation," he said in a statement. With the counterpart bodies in Turkey, followed by the formation of a joint security team between the Kingdom and the sister Republic of Turkey, while allowing the Turkish security authorities to enter the Consulate of the Kingdom in Istanbul and the residence of the Consul, in the interest of the Kingdom to know all the facts, The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, to the Attorney-General of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, No. 5709 dated 3/2/1440 H, carrying out investigations. The Public Prosecution investigated a number of suspects on the basis of information provided by the Turkish authorities to the Joint Security Team If any of them had any information or anything to do with what happened, as the information conveyed to the security authorities indicates that the citizen Jamal Khashoggi left the consulate.
And in order to implement the directives of the leadership of the need to know the truth in any way and declare it transparently whatever it was, preliminary investigations conducted by the Public Prosecution showed that the suspect to go to Istanbul to meet with Jamal Khashoggi for the emergence of indications of the possibility of returning to the country.
The results of the preliminary investigations revealed that the discussions with the citizen Jamal Khashoggi during his presence in the Consulate of the Kingdom in Istanbul by the suspects did not go well and developed in a negative led to a quarrel and clashing hands between them and to Khashoggi, and aggravated, which led to his death God's mercy and try to conceal what happened and coverage on it.
The source added that while the investigations are still ongoing in the case with the 18 detainees of Saudi nationality, the Kingdom expresses its deep regret at the painful developments that have taken place and stresses the commitment of the authorities in the Kingdom to bring the facts to the public opinion, And to hold all those involved and bring them to justice by referring them to the competent courts in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.