'Saudi releases Bin Laden patriarch held in Ritz crackdown'

Saudi Arabia has released construction magnate Bakr bin Laden, more than three years after his detention in a purge of the kingdom's elite that upended his vast business empire, sources told AFP. The former chairman of the Bin Laden Group, Saudi Arabia's biggest construction company, was reunited last week with his family in Jeddah after being freed from an undisclosed site.

'Saudi releases Bin Laden patriarch held in Ritz crackdown'
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Saudi Arabia has released construction magnate Bakr bin Laden, more than three years after his detention in a purge of the kingdom's elite that upended his vast business empire, sources told AFP. The former chairman of the Bin Laden Group, Saudi Arabia's biggest construction company, was reunited last week with his family in Jeddah after being freed from an undisclosed site.