Senior advisors to the Saudi Crown Prince bidding to buy Newcastle United have been targeted in a crackdown by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.
The Premier League are currently considering whether to let the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, buy an 80% stake in the Tyneside club.
On Monday evening Raab published a list of 44 people – 20 of them Saudi – who he said had “committed the gravest human rights violations.” Fifteen were officers involved in the “unlawful killing of Jamaal Khashoggi” and some worked in the Crown Prince's office.
And they included Saud Abdullah Al Qahtani a “former advisor to the Crown Prince in the royal court”. He is said by the UK government to be a “senior official
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