Photographs showed security forces searching through the 2011 black Mercedes-Benz with green consular registration plates. The vehicle was reportedly abandoned in an underground car park on Istanbul’s northern outskirts days after Khashoggi’s murder.
The car matched the description and plates of a vehicle seen at the Saudi consulate on the day of the 2 October killing at the hands of Saudi security and intelligence officials dispatched from Riyadh to confront the dissident. The daily Hurriyet, citing an employee of the car park, reported that the vehicle arrived at the lot on 7 October, driven by a consular official.
Still from security camera footage broadcast on CNN Turk shows what appears to be Saudi consular officials carrying a large case (CNN Turk)
That same consular official then returned in a BMW on 18 October, placing three suitcases into the parked Mercedes before departing, the paper reported. Police found the vehicle on 22 October.
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