Although the government of Saudi Arabia denies that it has given the order to assassinate the critical journalist of the monarchy of his country, everything indicates that it will be very difficult for them to evade their responsibility in what happened.
Turkish authorities think he was killed and dismembered with a saw inside the consulate and claim to have proof of the fact.
The Secretary of State of the United States, Mike Pompeo, is in Riyadh urging King Salman bin Abdelaziz to clarify what happened and already managed to commit to a "comprehensive, transparent and timely" investigation. Pompeo will travel to Istanbul on Wednesday to also meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
But from Ankara, the Turkish president denounced that although permission was obtained to register the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where the crime was allegedly executed, the Turkish police investigated "toxic" and "things that were eliminated by painting on top".
"There is an investigation of what are and what are not a few things that were eliminated by painting on top, toxic substances, etc.," Erdogan told reporters after a speech in Parliament, according to the newspaper Cumhuriyet.
In full investigation for the suspicions of murder of the journalist in the consular offices, and before the Turkish police proceeded to a register of his residence on Tuesday, the Saudi Arabian consul in Istanbul left Istanbul and returned to his country by plane.
To which was added an additional finding. It was known that the journalist had entered the consulate with an Apple watch synchronized with a cell phone that he left in the possession of his fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, who was waiting for him outside the consular headquarters.
Already the Turkish press went further. According to the Turkish newspapers 'Sözcü' and 'Milliyet', audio recordings that are currently being examined by Turkish justice were transmitted to the phone through the clock. While Milliyet affirms that shouts and a fight were registered, Sözcü informs that in the recording dialogues can be heard, but not shouts, in this audio "of several minutes".
The Turkish newspaper close to the government 'Sabah' says for its part that Jamal Khashoggi recorded with his watch his own "interrogation", the "tortures" he suffered and his "murder" inside the Saudi mission. However, no official confirmation of this information could be obtained.
US media reported on Monday that Riyadh plans to acknowledge that Khashoggi died in his custody in an interrogation that got out of hand.
Although it also raises justify that the alleged intelligence officers responsible for the murder did so on their own to clear a possible responsibility for the monarchy, and especially Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who was the main object of criticism of the missing journalist .
According to CNN, which cited two anonymous sources, Riyadh would have prepared a report to try to minimize its involvement in the disappearance of Khashoggi. According to the Wall Street Journal, this would allow the royal family to "get rid of direct involvement" in Khashoggi's death.
For now, Saudi Arabia is beginning to suffer consequences for what happened. On Monday, the Saudi stock market recovered after a black Sunday caused by the Khashoggi case.
The British millionaire Richard Branson decided to freeze his projects in the country. And several personalities decided not to participate in the second edition of the Future Investment Initiative forum, the so-called 'Davos in the desert', to be held in Riyadh from October 23 to 25.
This is the case of James Dimon, CEO of the US bank JPMorgan Chase, which according to the US press on Sunday night was no longer on the guest list. Nor will media such as the 'Financial Times', the 'New York Times' or 'The Economist' or the Uber boss.
For many multinationals, going to this conference carries reputational risks that "outweigh the benefits they could have derived from the Saudi economy," according to Michael Stephens of the London think tank Royal United Services Institute.
Endeavor, one of the leading talent firms in Hollywood, plans to cancel a $ 400 million contract with the Saudi kingdom, which last March negotiated the acquisition of minority shares in the company, coinciding with the economic deployment of the country in the entertainment industry