The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported that a judge in the state of Ontario rejected the request of former Saudi intelligence official Saad Al-Jabri to revoke a decision issued to freeze his assets estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars.
In a report, the Broadcasting Corporation website said that Supreme Court Judge Cory Gilmore undermined with this decision Al-Jabri's story, which he said had received great media coverage, according to which a Canadian lawsuit alleging that he was corrupt was part of an ongoing campaign of persecution against him by the party. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
The Canadian website said that Judge Gilmore asked why Al-Jabri refused to answer questions about the accusations contained in a lawsuit in Toronto, that he had transferred security and counterterrorism funds to himself, his family and his associates.
Embezzlement lawsuits
The lawsuit alleges that between 2008 and 2017 Al-Jabri orchestrated a plot with at least 21 others to embezzlement of $ 4.3 billion from Saudi companies established to support counterterrorism activities, and none of the allegations in the lawsuit have been substantiated.
In her decision, the judge said that she agreed with the Saudi companies suing Al-Jabri that he had not adequately explained any of the alleged fraudulent activities documented in the 150-page forensic report prepared by Deloitte, an accounting firm, for the plaintiffs.
It also stated that Jabri "removed" hundreds of millions of dollars that were tracked to him, his family, and other partners.
Bank accounts
She pointed to the fact that Al-Jabri has not yet provided a written statement on how he obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in assets, including bank accounts in Europe, Malta, the British Virgin Islands, the United States and Canada, and luxury real estate.
Al-Jabri - who worked as an advisor to the former crown prince, Prince Muhammad bin Nayef - filed a lawsuit in the United States against bin Salman and 13 Saudis, and claimed that an "assassination squad" was sent from the Kingdom to Canada "in an attempt to eliminate him" in October 2018. Just days after the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi "by members of the same group."
Last November, a judge in the Federal Court in Washington, DC, approved Al-Jabri's request to lift the secrecy of all documents related to his case, which he filed against the crown prince.