{"id":11121,"date":"2017-12-24T00:17:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T22:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=11121"},"modified":"2017-12-24T00:17:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T22:17:49","slug":"6-billion-for-alwaleed-bin-talals-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=11121","title":{"rendered":"$6 Billion for Alwaleed bin Talal&#8217;s freedom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gettyimages-479123388.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gettyimages-479123388.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gettyimages-479123388.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gettyimages-479123388-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gettyimages-479123388-768x562.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wall Street Journal &#8211; Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, detained since early November in a corruption probe, faces a demand from Saudi Arabian authorities of at least $6 billion to win his freedom, the Wall Street Journal reported.<\/p>\n<div class=\"regwall\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-position=\"1\">The price being demanded is among the highest sought for those who have been arrested, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/div>\n<div class=\"regwall\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-position=\"2\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"regwall\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-position=\"2\">Alwaleed, 62, is the 57th-richest person in the world, with an $18 billion fortune according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He is known internationally for investments in companies including Citigroup Inc., Apple Inc. and Twitter Inc.<\/div>\n<div data-position=\"3\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"regwall\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-position=\"3\">The Journal reported that Alwaleed is talking with the government about accepting as payment for his release a large piece of his conglomerate, <a title=\"Company Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/KINGDOM:AB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kingdom Holding Co.<\/a> Kingdom Holding is listed on the Saudi stock exchange and has a market value of almost $9 billion.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Wall Street Journal &#8211; Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, detained since early November in a corruption probe, faces a demand from Saudi Arabian authorities of at least $6 billion to win his freedom, the Wall Street Journal reported. The price being demanded is among the highest sought for those who have been arrested, the newspaper &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388],"tags":[2091,5284,1469,5286,5283,5285,1782,5282],"class_list":["post-11121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slide","tag-aldiplomasy","tag-arabias","tag-for","tag-man-6-billion","tag-of-freedom","tag-richest","tag-saudi","tag-the-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11123,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121\/revisions\/11123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}