WATCH: JamalKhashoggi children got houses, monthly payments as compensation, officials say
The children of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi have received million-dollar houses in the kingdom and monthly five-figure payments as compensation for the killing of their father, according to current and former Saudi officials as well as people close to the family.
The delivery of homes and monthly payments of $10 000 or more to each sibling were approved late last year by King Salman as part of what one former official described as an acknowledgement that "a big injustice has been done" and an attempt "to make a wrong right." A banker in Jiddah, Salah is the only Khashoggi sibling who intends to continue living in Saudi Arabia, according to people close to the family. The others reside in the United States and are expected to sell their new Saudi properties.
Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan issued a statement Monday, six months after Jamal Khashoggi's death, saying the Saudis "have adopted a strategy of evasion" that has "scapegoated expendable officials, seeking to quell international furore by staging a sham trial." Saudi officials have strenuously denied that Mohammed was involved, describing the slaying as a rogue operation carried out by a team that intended to subdue Khashoggi and bring him back to Riyadh but killed him after a struggle at the consulate in Istanbul. Khashoggi came to the diplomatic facility to collect paperwork needed to remarry.
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