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2 min read Saudi Arabia has released construction magnate Bakr bin Laden, more than three years after his detention in a purge of the kingdom’s elite that upended his vast business empire, sources told AFP. The former chairman of the Bin Laden Group, Saudi Arabia’s biggest construction company, was reunited last week with his family in the Red Sea city of Jeddah after being freed from an undisclosed detention site, two people close to his family said. It was unclear whether the release of Bakr, a tycoon in his 70s once seen as a major powerbroker, was provisional as his movements are still curtailed, one of the sources said. ....
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Published 13 May 2021 Saudi Arabia has released construction magnate Bakr bin Laden, more than three years after his detention in a purge of the kingdom’s elite that upended his vast business empire, sources told AFP. The former chairman of the Bin Laden Group, Saudi Arabia’s biggest construction company, was reunited last week with his family in the Red Sea city of Jeddah after being freed from an undisclosed detention site, two people close to his family said. It was unclear whether the release of Bakr, a tycoon in his 70s once seen as a major powerbroker, was provisional as his movements are still curtailed, one of the sources said. ....
Riyadh frees Bin Laden patriarch Updated: Updated: He was held in a 2017 purge of the kingdom’s elite at Ritz-Carlton hotel Share Article He was held in a 2017 purge of the kingdom’s elite at Ritz-Carlton hotel Saudi Arabia has released construction magnate Bakr bin Laden, more than three years after his detention in a purge of the kingdom s elite that upended his vast business empire, sources told AFP. The former chairman of the Bin Laden Group, Saudi Arabia s biggest construction company, was reunited last week with his family in the Red Sea city of Jeddah after being freed from an undisclosed detention site, two people close to his family said. ....