Saudi Arabia Squeezes Detainees as It Tries to Seize Assets
" he said, "because you need to be able to show that to access the assets, most of which are held abroad." But even those who applaud the Saudi government for taking steps to get rid of endemic corruption say its reliance on an opaque and ad hoc process could hinder later efforts to recuperate assets.
that The remaining parties that don’t want to settle will be subjected to due process, with all the bells and whistles,
Ali Shihabi said that If you are facing a situation where you have to take in as many people as you do,
and of such prominence, if you are going to have a legal process, it will drag on for years, assuming that you have the legal bandwidth to do it,
Any efforts to retrieve wealth from the United States, Britain, Switzerland or other Western countries where rich Saudis have vast holdings would require demonstrating
that Saudi Arabia had followed international standards of human rights and due process.
Adam Coogle said that This appears to be taking place outside anything that resembles a clear legal process,
Saudi defendants would then have the right to appeal in Western courts, a process
that could prove lengthy and awkward for a kingdom that does not like to have its private business made public.
Now those three are among the more than 200 people detained in luxury hotels in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, as the
government tries to seize hundreds of billions of dollars in assets it says they stole through corrupt means.