A Saudi sex offender has filed an amended slander lawsuit against the FBI and Colorado officials including Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler in a years-long quest to be transferred to Saudi Arabia to finish his prison term.

In the complaint filed Monday, Homaidan al-Turki accuses Brauchler, FBI agents and others of thwarting his already-approved transfer to Saudi Arabia in 2013 by making false claims that he sexually assaulted his maid, had terrorist ties and was a person of interest in the shooting death of state prisons chief Tom Clements.

Brauchler announced his intention to run for governor Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn allowed the amended complaint after he dismissed most but not all allegations against the defendants.

“We’re pleased with where things are, and we’re really looking forward to clearing his name,” al-Turki’s attorney Faisal Ahmed Salahuddin said on Wednesday.

Al-Turki is seeking an injunction ordering the defendants to refrain from making false statements about him, including saying that he had anything to do with Clements’ death.

Defendants deny making defamatory remarks and conspiring to stop al-Turki’s transfer to Saudi Arabia, which first had to be approved by the U.S. Department of Justice.

“District Attorney George H. Brauchler and Chief Deputy District Attorney Ann Tomsic deny they violated any of Mr. Al-Turki’s rights and look forward to defending themselves in the ongoing litigation,” said 18th Judicial District spokeswoman Vikki Migoya.

Brauchler and others also claim immunity because they were acting under the auspices of their public positions. A motion to dismiss the complaint says, “(Al-Turki) has no standing to bring this suit because he is, in essence, suing to enforce the provisions of an international treaty.”

Blackburn previously dismissed certain individual claims by al-Turki against Brauchler, his chief deputy Ann Tomsic, a Colorado Department of Corrections supervisor and FBI agents. In a Feb. 28 recommendation, U.S. Magistrate Judge Kristen Mix urged Blackburn not to dismiss the remaining charges.

Al-Turki’s allegations sufficiently allege that the federal defendants “had an agreement and meeting of the minds” with some of the state defendants and that they took concerted action to convince Clements to retract his initiation of the international prisoner transfer, Mix wrote.

“Behind closed doors they smeared him,” Salahuddin said.

Al-Turki is currently serving a term of eight years to life on numerous felony counts of sexual contact and a misdemeanor count of false imprisonment.

The lawsuit says FBI Agent Jon Bibik and FBI Chief Division Counsel Robert Goffi helped torpedo al-Turki’s transfer by claiming he “had ties to terrorism-related organizations,” and specifically with Anwar al-Awlaki, who was the first U.S. citizen to be targeted and killed by a U.S. drone strike. The lawsuit names Bibik and Goffi as defendants.

Al-Turki’s complaint acknowledges that he had sold “constitutionally protected” publications of al-Awlaki’s religious sermons, but that was years before al-Awlaki had become a radicalized Islamic militant.

“Our client is not a security threat and never has been,” Salahuddin said.

Tomsic first sent correspondence to Gov. John Hickenlooper in November 2012, mischaracterizing al-Turki’s conviction as being a human trafficking and sexual assault case, the lawsuit said.

Tomsic and Brauchler later met with former Denver Post columnist Vincent Carroll, who wrote a March 8, 2013, column, “Don’t Let Mr. Al-Turki Go Free, Colorado,” the lawsuit says. Tomsic was quoted in the opinion piece saying al-Turki repeatedly sexually assaulted his maid while she slept near a water heater. But al-Turki had been acquitted of all sexual assault charges, the lawsuit says.

“Defendants Tomsic and Brauchler met with Mr. Carroll in order to further their conspiracy to defame plaintiff, disrupt the normal transfer protocol, and to unfairly cause the reversal of plaintiff’s approved transfer,” the lawsuit says.

Clements wrote a March 12, 2013, letter to al-Turki notifying him that Clements was denying his transfer. Clements was murdered a week later, on March 19.

Subsequently, Tomsic or agents in her office told a television reporter that the “al-Turki connection right now is the main working theory behind Clements’ death,” the lawsuit says.