Turkish Prosecutor's Office renounces further investigation of Khashoggi's murder

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The Turkish prosecutor in charge of investigating the murder in 2018 of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the consulate of

in

has asked this Thursday to close the case and leave it in the hands of the Justice of this country, which would end one of the main ways to convict the guilty.

During a session of the open trial in Turkey against 26 suspects, the prosecutor has issued a final evaluation in which he requested that the file be transferred to Saudi Arabia, a request on which the Turkish Ministry of Justice must now decide.

Khashoggi

, a journalist close to the Saudi monarchy but estranged from it since Crown Prince

became the kingdom's "strong man", was last seen on October 2, 2018 as he entered the consulate of your country in

to request documentation for your wedding.

The Turkish authorities consider that the journalist was assassinated by a commando that arrived in

from

and that his body was later dismembered and "dissolved".

The Turkish Prosecutor's Office opened a trial in absentia against 26 Saudi citizens two years ago, while

closed the case in September 2020 after sentencing eight defendants, five of them to death, which was later commuted to 20 years in prison.

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