The American "Washington Post" newspaper dealt with the march of the rise of the former Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Nayef, then what it described as a tragic collapse later at the hands of the current crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.

In a lengthy article written by David Ignatius, the foreign affairs specialist, the newspaper reviewed the beginning of the collapse of the Bin Nayef march since the death of the former king Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz in 2015, and then his overthrow by Prince Muhammad bin Salman, son of the later king Salman bin Abdul Aziz, from the mandate of the Covenant in 2017. And ending with the current stage in which he was arrested for several months, and he may be charged with official accusations of corruption.

The American newspaper, quoting Saudi and American sources, said that the Anti-Corruption Committee of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is close to completing a detailed investigation into allegations of corruption and treachery against Prince Muhammad bin Nayef after 4 months of his arrest.

The American newspaper added today that the Anti-Corruption Committee is preparing to indict the former crown prince and former interior minister Mohamed bin Nayef of seizing $ 15 billion while he was running anti-terrorism programs in the ministry, through a network of companies and private accounts.

The newspaper quoted an unnamed private Saudi source as saying that the investigators asked Bin Nayef to pay $ 15 billion they claim he seized.

The committee says that bin Nayef illegally transferred the said funds through bogus companies and special accounts, but the newspaper indicated that documents it had seen from those close to Muhammad bin Nayef showed that the accusations against him were false.

Secret funds and
 documents According to the reports, the activities of the secret financial fund obtained the approval of the late King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, at least in its broad outlines. On those programs.

The documents also state that the secret royal decree - issued on December 27, 2007 and showing the signature of King Abdullah - states that the Assistant Minister of the Interior, who was occupied by Muhammad bin Nayef at the time, will be responsible for managing the fund and its expenditures in ways that support counter-terrorism efforts.

In 2007, Prince Bin Nayef held the position of Assistant Minister of the Interior, years before he assumed the position of Minister between 2012 and 2017.

In early May of 2013, Muhammad bin Nayef submitted a report to the late King Abdullah summarizing secret spending on anti-terrorism programs for the same fiscal year, in which the prince requested royal approval for financial allocations of 5 billion Saudi riyals, equivalent to $ 1.3 billion to finance 8 projects.

Among these eight projects are "secret airports", for which an amount of 378 million riyals has been allocated, an amount of 1.6 billion riyals for "air transport services" and 1.5 billion riyals for security requirements such as weapons, and the king agreed to that as the document states.

After 3 days of submitting the report, the Royal Court agreed to Bin Nayef's request to finance these projects, including building a secret airport and purchasing weapons.

A long march
The newspaper returns to talk - in a long review - about the path of Bin Nayef in the Ministry of Interior and how he dealt with many of the storms that he faced in his career.

She says that the first project implemented by Bin Nayef was in 1999, which is the reform of the Saudi Police Academy, an advanced training center, who was often recruiting its affiliates through favoritism and favoritism, and he reorganized this academy with the help of a talented graduate named Saad Al Jabri, a former police officer Saudi Arabia holds a doctorate in computer science from the University of Edinburgh, Britain, and the partnership of the two men continued until bin Nayef was removed from Al-Ahd province.

After the modernization of the academy, bin Nayef al-Jabri was tasked with reorganizing the Military Affairs Office of the Ministry of Interior, another center known for favoritism and poor performance.

Bin Nayef faced his first real test when he had to deal with the uprising in 2000 in Najran, a city along the kingdom's southern border with Yemen that has a large Ismaili community.

After the arrest of an Ismaili cleric on charges of witchcraft, dozens of military officers defected and the governor's headquarters were attacked, and the old guard in the ministry wanted to crack down on protesters, but bin Nayef opted to negotiate and reach a peaceful settlement, so that the conciliatory style would become his religion, in dealing with such matters.

There is no doubt that the reform costs money, and since the budget of the Saudi Ministry of Interior was largely depleted by the costs of the employees, the Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz gave his nephew Muhammad bin Nayef in 2003 about 30% of the ministry’s revenues from fines and passport fees. Accommodation and other revenue to fund special activities.

According to one of Bin Nayef's aides, this was the beginning of the special financial arrangements that led to the current investigation.

That Saudi security establishment remained in hibernation until the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, as his father, Interior Minister Nayef, was convinced that the attacks were a conspiracy intended to discredit the kingdom.

This Saudi denial stance lasted until May 2003, when al-Qaeda militants attacked a housing complex housing foreigners in Riyadh, killing 35 people, including 10 Americans, an incident that led to the CIA director at the time, George Tenet, to Riyadh for an urgent meeting with Prince Abdullah warned him that the royal family was facing a serious threat.

Tenet remembers that his meeting with Abdullah was attended by Nayef and his son Muhammad, and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, who worked as a translator.

Tenet Abdullah warned that al-Qaeda's plots "were directed against your family and the highest religious authority in your country" and urged him to "declare war" on this organization, according to his memoirs.

Immediately, Abdullah bin Nayef nominated Muhammad bin Nayef, telling him in front of others: "You are the one who will deal with the anti-terrorist file."

In the following years, bin Nayef modernized the Ministry of Interior's security apparatus, known as the "detective", turned it into a sophisticated anti-terrorist force, and funded its operations through a 30% fund designated for that.

But the expenditures worsened, and by 2006, King Abdullah decided to give Bin Nayef more money for secret intelligence operations, especially against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or its branch in Yemen.

Abdullah's new generosity was partly driven by a bold al Qaeda operation in February 2006, during which it built a 460-foot tunnel to free 23 of its detainees in Yemen, including the leader of the 2000 attack on the USS Cole.

Here, an emergency grant of 200 million riyals ($ 53 million) was allocated in 2006 to the new Bin Nayef agency to double its operations against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

What did the American intelligence say?
In another axis, the newspaper talks about the views of some of those who lived close to it from US intelligence officials, as it quoted former CIA officials to the newspaper that they were aware of Bin Nayef's control of such secret accounts to combat terrorism, and that they used them to help finance US-Saudi projects Shared.

He quoted former CIA director John Brennan - who had worked closely with bin Nayef for more than a decade - that he knew about these accounts, and that he did not believe that bin Nayef was involved in corrupt activity or was stealing money.

The same position was also confirmed by something that was confirmed by George Tenet, who was director of the CIA when bin Nayef took up the anti-terror file in 2003, where he spoke remarkably about Ben Nayef in his book "At the Center of the Storm" published in 2007.

George Tenet said in his book, speaking about bin Nayef that "he is a person in whom we have developed a great deal of confidence and respect, and that many successes in breaking up Al Qaeda in the Kingdom are the result of his courageous efforts."

Documents in the hands of attorneys in the West.
The Washington Post quoted one of Bin Nayef’s aides as saying that his attorney’s team keeps these documents in Britain and Switzerland, and they will be available in any legal or international action that may occur in the future.

It is noteworthy that before the arrest of the previous crown prince on the seventh of last March, Prince Muhammad bin Nayef had been under house arrest since his ouster from the crown prince by the current crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman in June 2017.

The newspaper stops at another station, the relationship between US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, the ambitious and risky person who found a strong ally when Donald Trump became President of the United States, where bin Nayef was forced to submit obedience and loyalty to bin Salman and was isolated in June 2017, Bin Salman then toppled all his allies and supporters in the kingdom, only months later after he arrested dozens of princes and businessmen.

Tragedy of its Saudi desert scene.
 At the end of the article, David Ignatius says that the impressive rise and the tragic collapse of Prince Muhammad bin Nayef is considered a new tragedy from the stories of Shakespeare, the theater of the Saudi desert.

The writer then affirms that, whatever Bin Nayef’s failures, the CIA officers who worked with him considered him a hero who helped save his country when it was seriously threatened, evoking the slogan of the modern detective apparatus that Bin Nayef did not spare an effort to establish, which is: “A country we do not protect, We do not deserve to live in it. "