Bin Salman seeks judicial immunity in the United States.
Riyadh leaders seek to secure Muhammad bin Salman’s judicial immunity in US, using oil and gas price-raising tools.
A Saudi official told the Saudi WikiLeaks website that Riyadh officials were in talks with Washington to grant immunity to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bens Lehmann.
The Saudi diplomat, who did not want to be named, said that progress had been made and that talks were moving forward. He claimed that the progress was due to an understanding on oil production and the crisis in Russia and Ukraine.
According to him, “Mohammad bin Salman is trying to take advantage of the Ukraine crisis and the rise in oil prices for personal gain, especially to increase his position in the United States; Among other things, to insure himself against some lawsuits, such as the murder of Jamal Khashgechi or the attempted assassination of Saad al-Jabri in US courts. Al-Jabri, who fled to Canada in 2017, filed a lawsuit against bin Salman in a Washington court in 2020, accusing him of plotting to assassinate him. Al-Jabri is said to have documents that could be used harshly against bin Salman, which is why the Saudi Crown Prince is seeking his extradition to Saudi Arabia.
Saudi diplomatic sources have previously said that the Riyadh government was deeply concerned about the conviction of Mohammed bin Salman in the case of Saad al-Jabri, a former Saudi intelligence official, and therefore asked the Washington administration to grant bin Salman immunity, but objected. Extremely confronted by Americans.
