Saudi Government Wants $6 Billion For al-Waleed’s Freedom

In case you were wondering what the going-rate was for one of the world’s richest men’s freedom… it’s $6 billion… in unencumbered cash (not Bitcoin).
That is the price that Saudi authorities are demanding from Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal to free him from detention.
The 62-year-old prince was one of the dozens of royals, government officials and businesspeople rounded up early last month in a wave of arrests the Saudi government billed as the first volley in Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s campaign against widespread graft.
According to the Mail, al-Waleed, who is (or was, until recently) one of the richest men in the world, has also been hung upside down and beaten.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Dec 22, 2017.