Portrait of Jamal Khashoggi on the cover of TIME magazineANKARA, Apr 2 Turkish Ministry of Justice decided to transfer the case about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi of Saudi Arabia, reports the Anadolu agency. Khashoggi was killed in October 2018 in Istanbul at the consulate of Saudi Arabia. Initially, the Saudi authorities denied his disappearance in the diplomatic mission, but after some time after the appearance of video and audio recordings, they were forced to admit that Khashoggi was killed «as a result of a quarrel with consular officials.» The Turkish police never found his body.
Media: in France, a Saudi was arrested by mistake in the case of the murder of Khashoggi pass 26 persons involved in the high-profile murder in the Saudi diplomatic mission. The investigation identified eight of the 15 people who came from Saudi Arabia to kill Khashoggi. on October 17, 2021, with the sanction of the prosecutor's office and the permission of the Saudi side, searches were carried out at the Consulate General. Testimony was taken from 20 employees of the diplomatic mission, including the driver, technical staff, employees of the accounting department and the public relations department. The results of the investigation were transferred to 11- 1st Serious Crime Court of the city of Istanbul. The names of 20 defendants appear in the criminal case: all of them were put on the international wanted list. The final decision on the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi will be made by the Istanbul prosecutor's office, «the agency specified. In September 2020, the court Saudi Arabia has issued final verdicts in the Khashoggi murder case. Of the eight defendants, five were sentenced to 20 years in prison, one to 10 years, and two more received seven years in prison.
