Report: Saudi researchers worked to eliminate evidence
Report: Saudi researchers worked to eliminate evidence
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Members of a team Saudi Arabia Sent to help Turkish authorities investigate the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi worked in his place to eliminate evidence of the killing, a senior Turkish official said on Monday.
The official confirmed a report in TurkeyThe Sabah newspaper said a team of 11 researchers from Saudi Arabia who arrived in Turkey nine days after Khashoggi was killed to participate in a joint Turkish-Saudi investigation, included experts in chemicals and toxicology who were reportedly charged to obfuscate the evidence.
The official said that Turkey believes that two members of the team "came to Turkey for the sole purpose of covering up the evidence" before the Turkish police were allowed to register the Saudi Consulate, where Khashoggi was killed on October 2 after that you will enter to collect a document. He needed to marry his Turkish fiancee.
The official said that the fact that a cleanup team was sent suggests that Khashoggi's murder "was known to the leading Saudi officials." The official spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with the government's rules.
Istanbul's chief prosecutor, who is leading the investigation, announced last week that Khashoggi, who was living in exile in the United States, was strangled immediately after entering the consulate as part of a premeditated murder and that his body was dismembered before his death. be retired
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an opinion piece in the Washington Post last week that the order to kill Khashoggi came from the highest level of the Saudi government and added that the international community had a responsibility to "reveal the master puppets "behind the killing
Turkey is seeking the extradition of 18 suspects who were arrested in Saudi Arabia so they can be tried in Turkey. They include 15 members of an alleged Saudi "success squad" that Turkey says was sent to Istanbul to assassinate the Washington Post columnist who had written critically about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
On Saturday, the Sabah newspaper, which is close to the government, said Khashoggi's body, which has not yet been found, was dismembered and removed from the Saudi Arabian Consulate in five suitcases.
A senior official of the ruling party of Turkey, and a friend of Khashoggi, has suggested that his body may have been dissolved in acid or other chemicals.
Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay told state agency Anadolu that such reports should be investigated.
Meanwhile, two of Khashoggi's sons asked for his remains to be returned so he could be buried in Saudi Arabia.
In an interview with CNN on Sunday, the children also said they expected him not to suffer when he was killed.
"All we want now is to bury him in the Al-Baqi cemetery in Medina with the rest of his family," said Salah Khashoggi.
"I talked about that with the Saudi authorities and I just hope it happens soon," he said.
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