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His body has never been found.

Sabah’s latest series of articles appears aimed at undercutting testimony from the trial that seemed to exonerate senior officials close to the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, and lay blame solely on the men who carried out the killing.

In particular, Sabah questioned the reported testimony of one of the most senior Saudi officials on trial, Maj. Gen. Ahmed al-Assiri, a high-ranking adviser to the crown prince. Al-Assiri, the newspaper reported, testified that he had asked the leader of the operation to persuade Khashoggi to return to Saudi Arabia.

“Asiri’s testimony is aimed at hiding Prince Salman’s responsibility in the events,” the newspaper wrote, using a different spelling of his name.

The testimony of other officials at the trial indicated that the killing was premeditated, the newspaper said.

It said a Maj. Gen. Mansour Abu Hussein had admitted that he was the overall man in charge of the operation and confessed in his testimony that he had been authorized by al-Assiri to use force if necessary to bring Khashoggi back. He also said he had arranged for the operations team to meet Saud el-Qahtani, the crown prince’s powerful social media czar, before their departure, it said.

The newspaper did not say how it came by its information about the trial. The first hearing, which took place Jan. 3, was attended by diplomats from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council — the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China — but no other outside observers or journalists, it said.

Another Saudi security official, Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, testified that Khashoggi had been killed by a lethal injection, the newspaper reported.

On Monday the newspaper published details of conversations of Saudi officials before and during the killing and said they reinforced claims that the murder had been planned. The excerpts were from transcripts of audiotapes widely reported before to have been compiled from listening devices inside the consulate.

Turkish officials could not be reached to confirm or deny the details published by Sabah.