Bill Gates Calls Detained Saudi Prince Alwaleed an ‘Important Partner’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-27/gates-calls-detained-saudi-prince-alwaleed-important-partner
Bill Gates said that Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who was arrested as part of the kingdom’s anti-corruption drive this month, has been an “important partner” in charitable work to improve health conditions around the globe.
“I’m only aware of what I’ve read in the press, and I can’t speculate,” the Microsoft Corp. co-founder said in an emailed statement. “Prince Alwaleed has been an important partner in my foundation’s work to ensure that kids around the world receive life-saving vaccinations. We’ve worked together to help stop the spread of polio, measles, and other preventable diseases. His commitment to philanthropy is inspiring.”
Alwaleed, the billionaire investor whose Kingdom Holding Co. owns stakes in companies such as Citigroup Inc. and Twitter Inc., is among dozens of princes, ministers and senior officials being held on orders from an anti-corruption committee headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Alwaleed and Gates’s Cascade Investment LLC teamed up a decade ago to take hotel chain Four Seasons Holdings Inc. private for about $3.8 billion. The Saudi prince has also teamed with Gates’s foundation on health initiatives and joined him on the Breakthrough Energy Coalition – a group of wealthy investors who pledged to aim a large portion of their fortunes toward energy technology.
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The Arrested Saudi Prince Alwaleed Owns These 12 US Companies
https://observer.com/2017/11/the-arrested-saudi-prince-alwaleed-owns-these-12-us-companies/
Here is a list of U.S. companies Prince Alwaleed has significant stakes in, and the year he invested:
Citigroup, 1991
Saks Incorporated (Saks Fifth Avenue), 1993
The Plaza Hotel New York, 1995 — The Plaza was owned by Donald Trump from 1988 to 1992. Prince Alwaleed purchased a controlling stake in 1995.
News Corp, 1997 — Prince Alwaleed owns 5.5 percent of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
Time Warner, 1997 — Prince Alwaleed owns 5 percent.
AOL, 1997
Apple, 1997 — Prince Alwaleed purchased more than 5 percent of Apple’s shares in 1997 for $115 million.
Motorola, 1997
Ebay, 2000
Twitter, 2011 — Prince Alwaleed raised his Twitter stakes in 2015 to 5 percent. He is the second largest shareholder of the company.
Snap Inc., 2015
Lyft, 2015 — Prince Alwaleed, along with General Motors and other nine investors, chipped in $1 billion in Lyft’s series F capital raising.
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