Tuesday, April 16

Tag: Sued

Saudi Prince sued over murder plot
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Saudi Prince sued over murder plot

A former senior Saudi intelligence official said in a US lawsuit Thursday that the country's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tried to have him assassinated in 2018, just weeks after dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Turkey. Saad Aljabri said Prince Mohammed sent a "hit squad" to Canada, where he lives in exile, to kill and dismember him in the same way that Khashoggi was murdered allegedly by the prince's agents in Istanbul in October 2018. "To fulfil his murderous desire, Defendant bin Salman has personally orchestrated an attempted extrajudicial killing of Dr. Saad, an attempt that remains ongoing to this day," Aljabri charged in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington. Aljabri said that Prince Mohammed wants him dead because he is close to rival pr...
Gov’t sued over President’s directive to Domelovo
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Gov’t sued over President’s directive to Domelovo

A United States based Ghanaian lawyer has dragged the Attorney General to the Supreme Court following the President's directive to the Auditor General to proceed on his accumulated leave. Mr Daniel Domelovo, the Auditor General has about 130 days of accumulated leave hence on July 4, this year, the President directed him to proceed on leave. To the US based Ghanaian lawyer, Professor Kweku Asare, the President's directive was unconstitutional. In an interlocutory injunction, Prof Asare is seeking an order directed at the President, his agents, privies, assigns, servants whatsoever to cease and desist from issuing directives to the Auditor General. He is further seeking an order that except for stated ground in Article 146 of the 1992 Constitution, the Auditor Generals tenure c...