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- ↑ The Kings of the Desert An American banker, a Saudi billionaire, and a financial collapse that stunned the Middle East., Nicholas Schmidle, April 13, 2015, The New Yorker
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Saad Investments Co. Ltd. ... was wound up in 2009.
CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link) - ↑ Whittaker, James (21 March 2015). "A Saudi saga". The Economist. Retrieved 3 February 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ↑ In Saudi Arabia, an Arrest in a Billion-Dollar Bank Bust, Nicholas Schmidle, November 7, 2017, The New Yorker