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At least $100 billion has been misused in Saudi Arabia as part of various types of corruption and embezzlement over several decades, according to Saudi Arabia's attorney general. It comes amid a major anti-corruption effort in the Gulf nation.</div>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">“<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Based on our investigations over the past three years, we estimate that at least $100 billion has been misused through systematic corruption and embezzlement
over several decades,</em>” Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb said in a statement, <a href="http://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=1686225" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">according</a> to
SPA news agency. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class=""><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">"The potential scale of corrupt practices which have been uncovered is very large,''</em> the attorney general said.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">The Sheikh went on to say that of the 208 people questioned in the crackdown, seven have been released without charge. He added that the personal details of those affected would not be revealed at this
time, citing the suspects’ legal rights.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">The official also stated that normal commercial activity has not been affected by the probe. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">"Companies and banks are free to continue with transactions
as usual,"</em> he said.<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""> </em></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">The attorney general stressed that only personal bank accounts have been frozen. According to AP, an estimated 1,700 such accounts have been affected.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">The crackdown on corruption took place after Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and heir to King Salman, was granted control over a wide-ranging anti-corruption committee, and immediately exercised his
new power over the weekend. Eleven former ministers and dozens of Saudi princes were arrested or detained on charges of graft or financial malfeasance.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">The move, widely regarded as an effort to consolidate power before the crown prince assumes the throne this year or next, was <a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/408975-trump-saudi-elites-milking-kingdom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">praised</a> by
US President Donald Trump.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class=""><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">“I have great confidence in King Salman and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, they know exactly what they are doing,”</em> Trump wrote on Twitter. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">“Some
of those they are harshly treating have been 'milking' their country for years!”</em></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">Meanwhile, Saudi King Salman has appointed some 30 judges at different levels within the Saudi Ministry of Justice. He promoted 26 others by royal order, the state news agency SPA reported earlier on
Thursday.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">Investigative journalist Pepe Escobar suggests the purge and the Crown Prince’s newly-created committee have nothing to do with corruption. Speaking to RT, he said that Mohammed bin Salman’s actions are
instead aimed at getting rid of potential rivals on his way to the throne, in what the journalist called <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">“Night of the Saudi long knives.”</em></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class=""><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">“Don’t forget, Saudi Arabia has no independent judiciary, no freedom of expression, no credible opposition. And in fact, King Salman isn’t ruling – who’s
ruling is actually MBS [Mohammed bin Salman],”</em> he told RT.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">Escobar also accused Washington of turning a blind eye to the matter, so as not to hurt business ties between Riyadh and those close to Trump. He noted that the purge came just after Trump's son-in-law
and senior adviser Jared Kushner visited Riyadh <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">“where he has been bonding very closely with the Crown Prince.”</em></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">Both Washington and Riyadh are at loggerheads with Iran, pushing to lower its influence in the region and accusing Tehran of supporting terrorism. Speaking to RT, Escobar said that the agreement between
the US and Saudi Arabia <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">“involves new foreign policy that’s very complex and, especially, [includes] antagonizing Iran and Lebanon.”</em></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">Crown Prince Salman was appointed as heir to the Saudi throne in June, thus removing King Salman’s nephew Mohammed bin Nayef from the post. The prince, the Saudi king’s son and his most trusted advisor,
is thought to be behind the latest series of domestic reforms, many of which are quite liberal by the standards of the conservative, religious kingdom.</p>
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