Thursday 4 July 2013

A defiant and wary Prince Al Waleed appears in London court - The National

"The Saudi billionaire Prince Al Waleed bin Talal was urged by a judge to reach a settlement in a high-profile British legal case involving a decade-long dispute over a private jet.

Prince Al Waleed, the nephew of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, is fighting a claim for US$10 million by a Jordanian businesswoman, Daad Sharab, who said the sum is owed to her for her role in selling one of the prince's planes to the late Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi.

After two days of cross-examination in the witness box, the judge Peter Smith asked the prince: "Do you really want to go through a trial where an English court declares you a liar? I might have to decide one or the other of you is lying, or even both of you are lying.""

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