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[QUOTE="orangenauburn, post: 5415674, member: 169"]
That alum at one time recently was not in good graces with the ruling part of his family.

He was under house arrest and had some assets seized.

Not sure what his actual standing is currently.

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On 4 November 2017, Al Waleed and other prominent Saudis (including fellow billionaires Waleed bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim and Saleh Abdullah Kamel) were arrested in Saudi Arabia as part of Mohammed bin Salman's purge to centralize power in Saudi Arabia.[12][13] The allegations against Al Waleed include money laundering, bribery, and extorting officials.[14] Some of the detainees were held in the Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh.[15] Al Waleed was released from detention on 27 January 2018, following a financial settlement of some kind, after nearly three months in detention.[16][17] In March 2018 he was dropped from the World's Billionaires list due to lack of current information.[18] He was listed in the 'Top 100 most powerful Arabs' from 2013 to 2021 by Gulf Business.[19][20][21]

Al Waleed was released from detention in late January 2018, nearly three months after his arrest.[17] According to a Wall Street Journal report, the price for his release was $6 billion.[62] In comparison, his first cousin Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah, son of the late King Abdullah (1924–2015), was released after reportedly paying $1 billion.[63]

Just days before his arrest, Al Waleed reportedly contacted US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi (who had publicly criticized the Saudi government in the past) and invited him to return to the Kingdom to contribute to Mohammad bin Salman's vision.[64]
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