JNN 15 Sept 2011 Madrid — Spain has reopened a rape probe against a Saudi prince who is one of the world’s richest people, looking again at allegations he drugged and sexually assaulted a young model on a yacht on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza, according to court papers.
The alleged assault by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, 56, reportedly took place on Aug. 13, 2008, but an investigating magistrate on the popular resort island closed the case last year on grounds of insufficient evidence.
However, a higher provincial court in the Balearic Islands, which include Ibiza, accepted an appeal by the plaintiff and issued an order this year instructing the same magistrate to resume the probe and question the prince as a suspect.
A copy of the order was obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
The order said the investigating judge, Carmen Martin Montero, had not questioned Prince Alwaleed in her initial probe. It said tests done by a forensic lab that answers to the Spanish Justice Ministry had found semen in the woman, then 20, and traces of a sedative called nordazepam.
Prince Alwaleed is a leading investor in both Citigroup and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. media empire, and held 26th place on this year’s Forbes list of the world’s richest people, with a fortune estimated at $19.6 billion.
The prince’s investment firm, Kingdom Holding Company, issued a statement denying the accusations. It said the prince was not even in Ibiza in August 2008 and has not been on the island for than a decade. In fact, it said he had not even heard about the allegations until Tuesday, through a press query.
“The alleged encounter simply never happened. Indeed, the events could not have happened,” read the statement from the Riyadh-based company. “Neither His Royal Highness nor his lawyers were informed or aware of any complaint filed in Ibiza in 2008 or that the same complaint was dismissed in 2010.”
The lawyer for the woman, Javier Beloqui, said if the prince was innocent he should just come to Spain to testify or provide a DNA sample for police to test against the DNA found in the woman.
“If he is innocent, it is all over and if not, he will be charged with rape,” Beloqui said. “It is as simple as that.”
An official at the provincial court in Palma on Mallorca island said she could not confirm Spanish news reports that the investigating magistrate who was ordered to reopen the case has already subpoenaed the prince to come to Spain for questioning. She spoke on condition of anonymity in line with court policy.
Jafria News 
What is this behijabi girl doing in the close proximity of the Saudi besharam Prince of the royal al saud family who is alleged having raped a young spanish model is shamelessly smiling. I am sure that after the reinvestigations, this billionaire chap, who is from the close members of the Aal e Saud family who have taken advantage of the vast oil reserves and the huge funds generated due to pilgrimage to the holiest of holy land of Makkah and Madinah are spending these unlimited wealth in their sinister aiyyashies.Peoples memory may not have faded, only sometimes back another kin was involved in the murder of a gay partner in a London Hotel and is spending his life in British jail. This is the general character and the Eeman which they are trying to boast to the world that they are the faith keepers of the Tauheed concept of Islam while in reality they are promoting the jewish Zionism to whom their ancestors belong with which faith they have all the heart core sympathies and have displayed by siding with them and their allies in the tragedies of Palestinians which they have suffered in the loss of life and properties since the 60’s accupattion and the number of children,women, old and young people killed, maimed and injured are innumerable .