| THE SCORES HAVE BEEN ATTAINED USING DOCUMENTED FACTS.
DIRECT OR INDIRECT INVOLVEMENT CAN AFFECT THE
SCORE AS HIGH AS ONE POINT. |
SCORE |
| MURDER : We do not know
of any case where Sultan ordered the murder of an individual. However,
Sultan spearheaded the war in Yemen and was its mastermind. Yemeni blood
is on his hands. |
10 |
| EMBEZZLEMENT : Sultan is
a master at robbing the country. Over the years, he has managed through
defense contracts, the largest of which is al-Yamamah
to receive kickbacks ranging from 25 to 40% of the contract value. In
al-Yamamah case which is a total of $40 billion, the amount stolen by
Sultan over a 10 year period is anywhere from $10 billion to $16 billion.
What does he do with all that wealth ? It is sitting in Swiss bank
accounts for protection should he one day be removed from power. The
Ministry of Defense budget is considered Sultan's budget for all intended
purposes. He and he alone decides how to spend that money and given the
state of the country today, it does not surprise us since no one man can
handle such vast responsibilities. Sultan takes from that budget as much
he personally needs and then some in the form of kickbacks. Embezzling to
him is not considered embezzlement because he starts from the principle
that the oil and the money belongs to his family therefore, he can expend
it anyway he wishes. |
10 |
| BRIBERY : Cases on file
of Sultan bribing people is a mile long. Whether he bribes his front men
to conceal facts about commercial contracts or opposition groups or
journalists to write favorably on his activities, he distributes some of
the money he takes away from the people to other people to keep his
lifestyle and actions under lid. His biggest recipients of bribes are his
women at different harems he maintained. In fact, a failed marriage ended up in paying a monthly
stipend, the form of which it should not be construed is as alimony since
marriage was not consumed. |
9 |
| DEFRAUD : Sultan covers
his shortage of cash flow (His billions are secured in Swiss bank accounts
and are not considered as standby capital when a cash flow crunch exists)
very rapidly using a scheme that will go down in the annals of history as
the fastest and easiest way to make large sums of money in the shortest
time possible : He takes land from the government and sells it back to the
government sometimes the same day. Waiting for Western companies to pay
him his kickbacks is not fast enough, so he invented the best fraud in the
history of mankind which is also used by other powerful princes (they
learned fast). Saudis should never wonder why the Saudi economy is in a
shamble. . |
10 |
| RACKETEER :
CACSA is not aware of any incident where Sultan was involved in
racketeering. There have been incidents though when he armed twisted
contracts from competing princes or merchant Saudi families for his own
benefit. Those are all rumored contracts and no facts have ever been
compiled in that regard. |
8 |
| CO-MINGLE : Most of the
palaces built for Sultan (There are over 30 of them in all the major
cities of the world), have been paid for by the Saudi government and in
particular by the Ministry of Defense. Sultan considers these to be his
own and has architecturally planned some of them as hideouts in case of
political turmoil. This is a miniature example. Larger examples include
considering the government money as his own and accordingly expending it
with that in mind. |
10 |
| MONOPOLY : Sultan has
monopolized two important elements in the Saudi government : The Defense
Ministry (He has been there since 1968) and his titles (five different
titles giving him broad powers to control and act). In business, he has
monopolized all defense contracts and gave an exception to Fahd as a
personal request (Fahd agreed to al-Yamamah on
one condition : that his two favorite sons, Azouz (i.e. Abdul Aziz) and
Mohammad share in the kickbacks). |
9½ |
| CONSPIRACY : Sultan's
Majlis is famous for one thing ; people sitting next to him and whispering
in his ear. No one gives the theory of conspiracy a larger role and more
credibility than Sultan. His horizontal style of management forces him to
spend few minutes with a large number of people discussing things that
very few others are aware of. In one such Majlis in his sumptuous palace
in Geneva, Switzerland overlooking Lake Leman, he met with over forty
people in a less than an hour. These people represented all walks of life
from journalists to military to bankers to businessmen. His main concerns
for creating an environment of conspiracy are two fold : Protecting his
power and stealing more money to keep the power in place. |
10 |
| CORRUPTION : This general term is the essence of this scoreboard. The
cumulative effect on the Saudi Society with Sultan's actions and reactions
is what is scored here. The outcome of his decisions, policies, acts,
performance as a politician are compiled and scored here. The score reflects what Saudi Arabia thinks of Sultan. |
10 |
| DEBAUCHERY: Non one in Saudi Arabia is as concupiscence, as lewd, as
ribald as Sultan bin Abdul Aziz is. His harems are world renown. His women
receive jewelry, cash, clothing, anything they want in his special harem
palaces just to be available for his whims and sexual appetite. |
10 |
| TOTAL SCORE |
96½ |
