Mohammed bin Salman personally attempted to “intimidate” Jeff Bezos with a WhatsApp message implying he had incriminating information about the Amazon chief’s extramarital affair in the weeks after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, UN investigators claimed to The Daily Telegraph.
UN officials said the Saudi crown prince appears to have sent a suggestive message to Mr Bezos’ personal iPhone in November 2018 in an effort to make the Washington Post owner tone down his paper’s critical coverage of Khashoggi’s killing several weeks earlier. When the message was sent, Mr Bezos' affair had yet to be publicly exposed.
The explosive allegation suggests that the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia was using private messages to not only hack the world’s wealthiest man but also intimidate him as part of an attempt to cover up the truth of Khashoggi’s murder.
“The information we have received suggests the possible involvement of the Crown Prince in surveillance of Mr Bezos, in an effort to influence, if not silence, The Washington Post's reporting on Saudi Arabia,” said UN officials Agnes Callamard and David Kaye.
Saudi Arabia adamantly denied the claims. “The idea that the Crown Prince would hack Jeff Bezos’ phone is absolutely silly,” said Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, the Saudi foreign minister. The government did not respond to a request for comment on the UN investigators' intimidation allegation.
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However, Saudi officials close to Prince Mohammed were aware of the attempt to hack Mr Bezos but not of a plan to blackmail him, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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