Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund and the chairman of LIV Golf, is going through a $74 million lawsuit in Canada claiming he “carried out the directions” of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to hurt a former intelligence chief.
The Athletic reported that authorized papers have been shipped to PIF addresses in Saudi Arabia, New York and London. They ask a Canadian courtroom for permission so as to add Al-Rumayyan to an current courtroom case in addition to levy a brand new declare in opposition to him and others.
Al-Rumayyan is accused of being “instantly concerned” in a prolonged marketing campaign in opposition to the household of Saad Aljabri, whose youngsters are jailed in Saudi Arabia.
Aljabri was a high aide to Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who was deposed by bin Salman as an inheritor to the throne again in 2017. This led Aljabri to flee Saudi Arabia and settle in Canada.
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The lawsuit claims Al-Rumayyan aided bin Salman’s “malicious intent” of “harming, silencing and finally destroying” Aljabri’s household.
The case arrives because the PGA Tour is alleged to be in superior negotiations with the PIF, which has bankrolled LIV Golf as a rival league for greater than two years. A shock “framework settlement” merging the pursuits of the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and PIF was introduced final June.
Authorized papers have been additionally delivered to St. James’ Park, the house stadium of English Premier League membership Newcastle United, of which the PIF owns an 80 % stake.