Photo shows arrested Saudi princes asleep on the floor in their ‘five-star prison’


A photo shows 11 Saudi princes, government ministers and businessmen sleeping on thin mattresses on the floor as they await their fate following their arrest in the biggest anti-corruption purge of the kingdom’s modern history.

 

In a photo obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com the men are seen gathered together at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, inside one of its glittering function rooms – wrapped in blankets and sleeping on thin mattresses.

 

Saudi sources say that among those photographed in the room are billionaire investor Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, who is a nephew of the king, worth an estimated $18 billion and owns stakes in Twitter, Lyft and Citigroup.

The photograph was revealed as President Trump went all-in supporting the man who ordered the mass arrests, Crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the ferociously ambition 32-year-old heir to the throne.