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Saudi authorities say man detained in Paris has 'nothing to do' with Jamal Khashoggi's murder - CNN

Saudi authorities say man detained in Paris has 'nothing to do' with Jamal Khashoggi's murder - CNN

Saudi authorities say man detained in Paris has 'nothing to do' with Jamal Khashoggi's murder - CNN
Dec 07, 2021 1 min, 2 secs

French police would not confirm the man's identity to CNN.

However, a senior Saudi official told CNN that the detention is "believed to be a case of mistaken identity."

By late Tuesday, the Saudi Embassy in France released a statement saying media reports were "incorrect" and "the person who was arrested has nothing to do with the case in question."

The Embassy said it expects the Saudi citizen's "immediate release." It added that "the Saudi judiciary has issued verdicts against all of those who participated in the heinous murder of Jamal Khashoggi, all of them are currently serving their sentences," in a statement posted on Twitter.

Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and a Washington Post columnist, was critical of Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's policies.

He was killed and allegedly dismembered on October 2, 2018, in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by men with close ties to the highest levels of the Saudi government and bin Salman.

Al-Otaibi was one of 16 individuals banned from the United States by the State Department in April 2019 for "their roles in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi."

Likewise, the British government placed Al-Otaibi under sanctions in July 2020.

The UK government said "he was involved in the unlawful killing of Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul ...

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