President Trump has teamed up with far left Sen Ron Wyden to investigate mysterious disappearances of Saudis who were bailed out of jail by the Russian consulate and then mysteriously disappeared.
It’s probably a safe bet that they were put on a private plane and returned to Saudi Arabia, where they would be protected.
The cases include Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah, who was facing Manslaughter charges after he ran over a school girl, killing her.
The consulate posted his $100,000 bail and they whisked him away in a black SUV, never to be seen again.
Next, Abdulaziz Al Duways, a Western Oregon University student, was facing rape and DUI charges. The consulate paid his $5,000 bail and once again, the suspect was never seen again.
Waleed Ali Alharth, an Oregon State University student, was here on a student visa. He was arrested on 10 charges of “Encouraging Child Sex Abuse.”
When he didn’t show up for a court date, he was investigated and they found that Alharth had boarded a plane in Mexico going to Paris.
President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law a bill that forces U.S. intelligence officials to disclose what they know about the Saudi government’s suspected role in whisking its citizens out of the United States to escape criminal prosecution.
It requires the director of the FBI — in coordination with the nation’s intelligence director — to declassify all information in its possession related to how Saudi Arabia may have helped accused lawbreakers leave the U.S.
“It is long past time to stop treating Saudi Arabia as if it were above the law,” Wyden, a Democrat, said in a statement. “My bill will finally force the federal government to cough up any information it may have about how the Saudi government may have assisted its citizens from fleeing beyond the reach of the U.S. justice system.”
The action in Washington comes nearly a year after an investigation by The Oregonian/OregonLive found multiple cases where Saudi students studying throughout the U.S. vanished while facing sex crime and other felony charges.
The investigation also found similar cases in at least seven other states — Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin — and Canada, bringing the total number of known Saudi suspects who have escaped to 25. Some date back 30 years, suggesting the Saudi government had spent decades helping its citizens flee, subverting the criminal justice system and leaving untold numbers of victims without any recourse.
The United States and Saudi Arabia don’t share an extradition treaty. That makes the return of any Saudi suspect who has left the U.S. unlikely, if not impossible, without diplomatic or political pressure.
In April, a story co-published by The Oregonian/OregonLive and ProPublica showed how the FBI, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have been aware of Saudi officials helping their country’s citizens avoid prosecution since at least 2008 yet never intervened.
