Samples from drains show acid traces

The killers of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi poured his remains down the drain after dissolving him in acid, a Turkish newspaper reported on Saturday.

Samples taken from the drains at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul showed traces of acid, pro-government daily Sabah said, without quoting sources. This led investigators to believe that his dead body was disposed of through the drains as liquid, the paper said.

Yasin Aktay, an adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, suggested earlier this month that the body may have been dissolved in acid. Later, a Turkish official said that Saudi Arabia sent two experts to Istanbul with the specific aim of covering up evidence after the murder.

Mr. Erdoğan said on Saturday that Turkey has shared recordings linked to Khashoggi’s murder with Riyadh and Washington.

“We gave the recordings, we gave them to Saudi Arabia, we gave them to Washington, to the Germans, to the French, to the English,” he said in a televised speech.

“They listened to the conversations which took place here, they know”, he said, but added that they were not accompanied by any written documents.