Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud (سلطان بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود) (born 1924 or 1928) is the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. He serves as the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense and Aviation. He is one of the Sudairi Seven. Sultan is first in the Saudi line of succession.
For Saudi Arabia, he has overseen billions of dollars of defense contracts with defense firms. He has been mired with corruption allegations and nicknamed “Sultan of Thieves” by his critics. He is reportedly in ill health and recently returned to Saudi Arabia after convalescing in Morocco.
On August 1, 2005, he became Crown Prince despite having a discord with King Abdullah. As Heir Apparent and Crown Prince, Sultan is first in the Saudi line of succession. A leaked March 2009 diplomatic cable from WikiLeaks stated that U.S. diplomats view him as “for all intents and purposes incapacitated”. He is possibly suffering dementia, specifically Alzheimer’s disease.
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