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SAUDI ARABIA - THE HOTEL AND THE SWORD

By Turki Albassam · 4 parts · 12 h 3 min · English

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Saudi Arabia, 1970 to 2026. In November 2017 foreign evaluators visiting the kingdom found that it did not confiscate criminal money, while in a Riyadh hotel princes handed the state, it said, more than four hundred billion riyals without a trial. Behind both lies a longer story: oil-boom agents, the Saudi bankers of BCCI, a family money exchange a Cayman court called one of history's largest Ponzi schemes, a prepaid-card scheme, the trade in borrowed names, and the couriers executed for Captagon. Covers Maan Al-Sanea and Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi & Brothers, Adnan Khashoggi and Lockheed, Khalid bin Mahfouz, Ghaith Pharaon and BCCI, Alwaleed bin Talal, Miteb bin Abdullah and the Ritz-Carlton detentions, Saad Aljabri and Sakab Saudi Holding, and GPT Special Project Management.

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    3:18:20

  2. Part 02

    2:47:45

  3. Part 03

    2:50:09

  4. Part 04

    3:07:11

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