26 February 2018: Saudi authorities are preparing to auction billions of dollars of real estate and cars belonging to billionaire Maan Al-Sanea
25 February 2018: Saudi is to allow women to sign up for military service as part of far reaching changes to the country’s economy and labour distribution
22 February 2018: Saudi Arabia announces that it is to invest $64 billion in its entertainment sector over the coming decade
16 February 2018: The Saudi owned Al Arabiya News Channel surrenders with immediate affect its UK broadcasting licence held with regulator Ofcom after Qatar complained that it was ‘violating impartiality code and accuracy in news sourcing’.
08 February 2018: Saudi Arabia’s government has acquired a 60% stake in media giant MBC Group a few days after the group’s founder and chairman of its Board of Directors Waleed Al-Ibrahim was released from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel
30 January 2017: Saudi media sources confirm the release of all detainees held on corruption charges at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the capital Riyadh. The purge has raised $106 billion for Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman
29 January 2018: Saudi authorities have released renowned businessman Saleh Kamel while Mohammed Al-Amoudi has refused to hand over his money and property. Authorities have reacted by arresting some of his relatives
29 January 2018: Saudi Arabia’s Waleed Al-Ibrahim will keep his 40% management stake in regional television broadcaster MBC after his release from detention in the country’s ‘corruption probe’, a senior MBC executive to says
13 January 2018: Saudi Binladin Group announces that a number of its partners might concede their shares to the government as part of a financial reconciliation package
09 January 2018: Saudi Prince Abdullah Bin Saud Al-Saud was relieved of his post as president of the Saudi Arabia Marine Sports Federation after releasing an audio recording in which he contradicted the authorities’ reasons for arresting 11 princes last week
09 January 2018: The Yemen Army shuts the office of Al Jazeera in besieged Taiz
08 January 2018: Saudi authorities have transferred the remaining detainees being held in the Ritz-Carlton hotel to the maximum security Al-Ha’ir prison, south of Riyadh. The prisoners include Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal
07 January 2018: 11 more princes are arrested after gathering to object to new rules that would demand royals pay for electricity and water
07 January 2018: Saudi authorities have imposed a travel ban on 17 members of prominent cleric Salman Al-Ouda’s immediate family, Human Rights Watch reports
13 December 2017: Studies are being undertaken to decide if the UAE and Saudi Arabia should launch a single digital currency
05 December 2017: Saudi announces that it has completed the first phase in its ‘anti-corruption’ drive, Minister of Commerce and Investment Majid Al-Qasabi says
29 November 2017: Saudi Prince Miteb Bin Abdullah, who was head of the elite National Guard, was freed after reaching an ‘acceptable settlement agreement’ with authorities paying more than $1 billion
23 November 2017: Reports that US mercenaries are being used to ‘torture’ the detained princes in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh
22 November 2017: The Wall Street Journal reports that princes arrested in Mohamed Bin Salman’s purge could face trial and jail terms in a maximum security prison if they do not give up their finaicial assets
22 November 2017: Reports that the arrest of billionaire Saudi businessman Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi could destabilise Ethiopia as a result of his vast investment in the country
Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi [Capital/Facebook]
23 November 2017: Saad Hariri ‘temporarily’ suspends his resignation until consultations are held with officials in Lebanon
21 November 2017: Saad Al-Hariri returns to Beirut for the first time since he resigned as prime minister in a statement delivered from Saudi Arabia
18 November 2017: Saad Hariri arrives in France for his first international visit following his abrupt resignation from the post of prime minister of Lebanon. French President Emmanuel Macron said he would receive Hariri in his capacity as Lebanon’s prime minister
16 November 2017: The Financial Times (FT) reports that Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman is negotiating a settlement which would see the country’s most well-known figures handover 70 per cent of their wealth in exchange for their freedom
09 November 2017: The US refuses to reveal details of a meeting held between its chargé d’affaires in Saudi Arabia and former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri
09 November 2017: The United Arab Emirates planned to wage a financial war against Qatar by targeting the country’s currency ‘using bonds and derivatives manipulation’, leaked emails revealed by the Intercept show
09 November 2017: Saudi Arabia advises its citizens against travelling to Lebanon and asks those in the country to leave as soon as possible, the Kingdom’s official news agency (SPA) reports
09 November 2017: Lebanon believes Saad Hariri is held in Saudi Arabia and unable to return. Lebanon’s former prime minister, said to be worth $1.1 billion has not left the Kingdom since he resigned from there on Saturday
09 November 2017: Saudi Arabia’s attorney-general says 208 people have been called in for questioning in a sweeping anti-corruption investigation, and seven of them have been released without charge, ‘we estimate that at least $100 billion has been misused through systematic corruption and embezzlement’
08 November 2017: Princess Reem, daughter of Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal who was detained on Saturday, becomes the first female to be arrested
07 November 2017: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman personally bribed Donald Trump with $1 billion during the US president’s visit to Riyadh in May, an anonymous Saudi commentator, who uses the Twitter handle Mujtahidd, claims
Crown Prince and Defence Minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud attends a Shoura Council meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 13 December 2017 [Bandar Algaloud/Saudi Kingdom Council/Anadolu Agency]
07 November 2017: Saudi Arabia bans Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, his two sons, ministers and military personnel from returning to Aden due to ‘bitter hostility between Hadi and the UAE’ which setup the Southern Transitional Council in the south of Yemen in opposition to Hadi’s rule
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