A man appearing to wear journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s clothes left the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul following his killing there, according to a surveillance video, while a member of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s entourage made four calls to the royal’s office around the same time, reports said on Monday.<\/p>\n
The reports by CNN and a pro-government Turkish newspaper came just a day before Prince Mohammed’s high-profile investment summit is to begin in Riyadh and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised that details of Khashoggi’s killing “will be revealed in all its nakedness”.<\/p>\n
Th reports add to the pressure Saudi Arabia faces over the slaying of The Washington Post columnist.<\/p>\n
The kingdom’s claim on Saturday that Khashoggi died in a “fistfight” were met with international scepticism and allegations of a cover-up to absolve the 33-year-old crown prince of direct responsibility.<\/p>\n
Turkish media reports and officials maintain that a 15-member Saudi team flew to Istanbul on Oct 2, knowing Khashoggi would arrive for a document he needed to get married.<\/p>\n
Once he was inside the diplomatic mission, the Saudis accosted Khashoggi, cut off his fingers, killed and dismembered the 59-year-old writer.<\/p>\n
CNN aired surveillance footage on Monday showing a man in Khashoggi’s dress shirt, suit jacket and pants.<\/p>\n
It cited a Turkish official as describing the man as a “body double” and a member of the Saudi team sent to Istanbul to target the writer.<\/p>\n
The man is seen in the footage walking out of the consulate via its back exit with an accomplice, then taking a taxi to Istanbul’s famed Sultanahmet Mosque, where he went into a public bathroom, changed back out of the clothes and left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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