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Us court summoned the crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman, as well as a number of other citizens of the Kingdom at the suit of a former employee of Saudi intelligence, Saad al-Jabri — a person close to the ex-the Minister of the interior Prince Mohammed bin Naif. About this informed the TV channel “al Jazeera”.Mr. al-Jabri claims that the Saudi authorities tried to kill him in the U.S. and Canada, and detained his children to get back home, as he has secret information about the Royal court and of the ruling circles of Saudi Arabia. According to the plaintiff, he, in particular, there is information about “the creation of a personal squad of mercenaries, which Mohammed bin Salman has involved, among other things, for the extrajudicial killing of Jamal Khashoggi” Saudi journalist and columnist for The Washington Post, who was killed in October 2018, the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul.In a lawsuit filed in Federal court in the district of Columbia, the crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is compared to the English monarch Richard III. “”Fist — we conscience, the sword — that is our law,” “Richard III”, William Shakespeare. These are the words of a man who, seeking to be king, kidnapped children, manipulated allies and killed those who stood in his way. Now, after a few hundred years after Shakespeare wrote these poems, we are filing this lawsuit, which arose from the same lust for power. Only in this case we are talking about free throne of Saudi Arabia, a man who seeks to occupy, is Mohammad bin Salman al Saud,” reads the document, which is quoted by TASS.Mr. al-Jabri believes that he might share the fate of Jamal Khashoggi. It is noteworthy that in addition to Mohammed bin Salman, the Washington court has summoned for questioning two more suspects in the murder of Mr Khashoggi. It is the advisers of the crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Saud al-Qahtani and former Deputy head of the General intelligence Ahmed Asiri, as well as ten other people.Saad al-Jabri lives in Canada. He left the Kingdom a few years ago, when Prince Mohammed bin Nayef retired. When the Prince was considered one of the most powerful men in the Kingdom, was close with Washington and London. Arriving at the Ministry of internal Affairs in 1999 to the position of assistant to his father, Mohammed bin Naif for nearly 13 years was responsible for the implementation of programs to combat terrorism. Mohammed bin Naif is the first among the grandchildren of the founder of the Kingdom became heir to the throne, however, after king Salman in 2017 and replaced him with his son Mohammed bin Salman, lost all his posts and was under constant supervision. In March, the media reported about the arrest of Mohammed bin Naif, as well as another 20 princes.Podr��bnee — in the publication “Kommersant” “PODRAZDELENIE intrigue”.Marianna Belenkaya