Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal said the accusation of Crown Prince bin Salman hacking Amazon Bezos' phone was "utter nonsense".

"I think the absurd word is correct. The thought that the Crown Prince hacked Jeff Bezos' phone is really silly," Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud told the interview. at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday.

Callamard and Kaye, two UN special rapporteur on murder without trial and freedom of speech, issued a joint statement on January 22 stating that they were informed that "the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia could join about spying on Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, in an attempt to influence or prevent the Washington Post from reporting on Saudi Arabia. "

Prince Faisal said Saudi Arabia would conduct an investigation into the allegations and insisted it was not concerned about baseless accusations that could undermine investor confidence.

"We are currently very happy with our capital inflows. If there are some people who are concerned, we will try to solve those problems," Prince Faisal said.

The cybersecurity experts that Bezos hired concluded his phone might have been compromised through a video file sent from the WhatsApp account that was supposed to belong to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2018. A large amount of data was hacked. leaked from the phone about a month later.

Bezos, the richest man in the world, is the owner of the Washington Post, which reported on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, in October 2018. US officials suspect Khashoggi's murder may have been approved by Crown Prince Mohammed, but Saudi Arabia has denied it.

In December 2019, an Saudi court acquitted the senior aides of Crown Prince Mohammed in the murder of a journalist. The court ruling was condemned by the international community as a "judicial farce".