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ESOTERICshade ago

If this is all true this is a massive cash grab that will number in the upper hundreds of billions of dollars. If this is true they are taking shares in Aramco, the Saud family oil company, which is the largest oil IPO in the world when it hits the market. Also taking their cash and tangible assets that can be liquidated.

One rival faction of the family stole the throne from the legit heir, the grandson of King Saud if I am interpreting all this correctly.

Since BBC has supposedly been allowed access this spectacle will be used later for some big purpose because they will not let this drama go to waste. I think it is possible that the entire blame for 911 might be blamed on this isolated group of people in the future but it remains to be seen.


A BBC reporter and film crew has gained rare access inside Riyadh's "gilded cage" - the Ritz-Carlton which became a luxury prison after a dozen or more princes were detained during the shocking events which began with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman's (MbS) internal purge on November 4th.


BBC's tour was "facilitated" under highly controlled and coordinated conditions, as initial photographs and short cell phone videos produced during the first few days of the crackdown revealed harsher and more restricted conditions as princes and/or their staff were forced to sleep on the floor camp-style in the middle of the luxury hotel's lobby.

According to the new BBC broadcast from inside the Ritz-Carlton, the princes are desperately scrambling to cut deals through their lawyers in order to secure release, this as new unconfirmed reports of torture have emerged:

When people were brought here around midnight on November 4th they were understandably angry. Some of them thought it would just be a show and it wouldn't last. And then when they realized they were here to stay they were furious. Almost everyone here - 95% I was told - are willing to make a deal, to give back what are said to be substantial sums of money in order to get out of here.


One businessman had tens of millions of Saudi riyals withdrawn from his account after he signed. In another case, a former senior official consented to hand over ownership of four billion riyals worth of shares, the source said.

The Saudi government earlier this week moved from freezing accounts to issuing instructions for “expropriation of unencumbered assets” or seizure of assets, said a second source familiar with the situation.


Mohammed Hussein al-Amoudi, an Ethiopian-Saudi dual citizen and the kingdom's second richest man. Image source: Twitter/@amggebre via Middle East Eye

According to Middle East Eye which bases its analysis on WikiLeaks diplomatic cables and other internal economic data:


Though Western governments and media by and large continue towing the line of a healthy and necessary anti-graft crackdown underway, recent geopolitical tensions involving Lebanese PM Saad Hariri's release and return to Lebanon, as well as the Saudi war on Yemen and threatening rhetoric directed at Iran clearly demonstrate the glaring falsehood of the official narrative which is limited to fairy tale notions of "the visionary reformer prince".

And no less than the US Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, is aggressively promoting this line, who when asked last week about agreements to hand over wealth for detainees’ freedom, told CNBC: “I think that the Crown Prince (Mohammed bin Salman) is doing a great job at transforming the country.”

Meanwhile the Saudi internal arrests have caused economic turmoil in some unlikely places. Middle East Eye this week reported that the largely under-reported arrest of billionaire businessman "Sheikh" Mohammed Hussein al-Amoudi threatens to "disrupt the economy of an entire country" - Ethiopia, which lies over 1000 km away. Amoudi is an Ethiopian-Saudi dual citizen with an estimated net worth of about $11 billion according to a 2016 Forbes profile.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-23/new-footage-inside-riyadh-ritz-carlton-reveals-princes-swapping-assets-freedom

Shillaxe ago

Not just 100's of millions, now seizing assets AND oil, $2 + trillion .

ESOTERICshade ago

Not just 100's of millions, now seizing assets such as real estate. .. AND oil, $2 + trillion .

Bingo. If I said millions I meant Billions. And Aramco oil will be a two trillion dollar IPO. This is one of the biggest thefts in history going on in the Saudi family and we can bet our bottom dollar that the Trump administration is neck deep in preferred Aramco shares and this is why the "bad saudis" rubbish is being pushed. Our government officials are getting filthy rich by causing regime change in Saudia Arabia.

Shillaxe ago

You said billions , all i see are blurs anymore, what the thieves haven't figured out is .... shutting Talal down means the payoffs stop and people start talking when that happens, this is going to be a major shit storm.

ESOTERICshade ago

this is going to be a major shit storm.

Puts a whole new twist on "Calm Before The Storm" eh?

Shillaxe ago

Not just SA but Qatar has been blockated , Lebanon's Hariri abducted , 7 million + being murdered in Yemen. ..

ESOTERICshade ago

Not just SA but Qatar has been blockated ,

Didn't know that. That was a Clinton stronghold. What is your tl;dr on that? Just another move to strip the Clinton/Bush cabal of that piece of the pie?

I guess the best outcome of this would be if the new gangster faction, Kushner/Trump knocks out the pedosatanic blood drinking faction. That way we would just be left with regular old gangsters that don't fuck kids and drink their blood.

Shillaxe ago

Trump protects bloodline , he's at war with the competition, you can pretend to like him for your jobs sake but don't be fooled.