Hariri Denies Taking Interest Free-Loan from Saudi King
Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri denied on Monday that he took an interest free-loan worth SR 7 billion from Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz.
A statement issued by Hariri’s press office stressed that the report published in al-Akhbar newspaper included a series of “lies and fabrications against Hariri, the Saudi kingdom and its leadership.”
Al-Akhbar said that the Saudi King allegedly gave orders to provide Hariri with an “interest free-loan worth SR 7 billion (over $2 billion) for his Saudi Oger company.”
The former PM slammed the newspaper, which is loyal to Hizbullah, noting that “Hizbullah fell in a media and political confusion after its secretary-general (Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah) admitted of receiving funding from Iran since the early 1980s.”
“However, this confusion shouldn’t have been obscured by the spread of lies and fabrications that the Lebanese and Arabs got tired of,” the statement added.
Sources told the daily that Hariri’s “bankruptcy reports are real,” as many bankers in the Gulf state refused to give him any new loans.
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