Saudi Prince's Assets Blocked
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the former Saudi ambassador to the United States from removing real estate sales proceeds from the United States, pending resolution of a class-action lawsuit.
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RIYADH - Saudi Arabia said Wednesday it would freeze the assets of its national Adel Batterjee, who was added to the US Treasury Departmentâs list of terrorist financiers, if such an act is sanctioned by the United Nations.
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The former Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, may have received up to $2 billion in confidential payments from a British defense firm, BAE Systems, over a period of nearly 20 years, according to two British media reports.
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Britain has frozen the assets of a London-based Saudi opposition group whose head is suspected of being an associate of terrorist group Al-Qaeda, the Treasury announced.
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Saudi Crown Prince Abd Allah bin Abd al-Aziz will not attend the forthcoming Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Bahrain amid growing intra-Gulf differences on free trade, according to officials.
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Prince Turki bin Nasser, until recently the deputy head of the Saudi airforce, has been linked to the series of police raids last week in the UK over the alleged Â£60m slush fund run by BAE Systems.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority has issued an edict barring the use of cell phones with built-in cameras, blaming them for "spreading obscenity" - a final resort after a ban on their sale and import to the kingdom failed to dent their popularity.    Camera cell phones have caught on fast throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East, particularly in oil-rich Persian Gulf countries, prompting concerns about privacy in places where people undress, "theft" of reading materials at book stores and newsstands, and corporate espionage by employees...
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Business & money: Sovereign funds deny political motivations, as US deputy treasury chief calls for vigilance
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A Georgian court said Friday it had ordered a freeze of the assets of a billionaire businessman who is under investigation for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government.
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Buckingham Palace on Friday dismissed as "irresponsible" newspaper reports that a kidnap threat forced Britain's Prince Harry to cut short a trip to a polo pony farm in Argentina.
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Guardian investigation: The government was last night fighting to contain the fallout over Â£1bn in payments to a Saudi prince as the attorney general came under renewed pressure to explain how much he knew about the affair.
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Pop musician Prince continued his online content bulldozing with a series of legal notices sent to sites devoted to the artist, demanding that all images of, lyrics by, and "anything linked to the likeness of " the artist be removed.
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A prominent Saudi dissident said Wednesday that he had not been informed by authorities about a move in the United Nations to freeze his assets and prevent him from traveling.
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Britain failed to act on information passed to it by Saudi Arabia which might have helped prevent suicide bombings in London in 2005 that killed 52 people, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah said on Monday.
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The Bush administration's proposed multibillion-dollar weapons sale to Saudi Arabia brought new allegations on Capitol Hill Tuesday that the monarchy has been lax in countering terrorism.
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The U.S. government on Tuesday  ordered banks to freeze any assets of a Kuwaiti man U.S.  authorities believe is a senior al Qaeda operative.
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Prince Bandar bin Sultan, a member of Saudi Arabia's royal family and the kingdom's former ambassador to the United States, pocketed about $2 billion in secret payments as part of an $80 billion arms deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia first signed in 1985, British media reported yesterday.