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Jordan accuses Prince Hamzah of ‘malicious plot’ against kingdom – Sydney Morning Herald
Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi accused the country’s former crown prince of conspiring with foreign interests to threaten national security.
Safadi did not identify the foreign interests allegedly involved in the plot, but he said a longtime senior official who has business ties in several Gulf Arab states, Bassem Ibrahim Awadallah, was involved and had been planning on leaving the country.
Jordans King Abdullah II.Credit:AP
He also claimed Awadallah had been trying to secure a plane for Hamzahs wife to flee. Awadallah and a second senior official, Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, are among the suspects in custody.
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