{"id":12440,"date":"2017-12-09T02:39:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T02:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=12440"},"modified":"2017-12-09T02:39:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T02:39:27","slug":"mbs-identified-as-buyer-of-450-mn-da-vinci-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/mbs-identified-as-buyer-of-450-mn-da-vinci-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"MBS Identified as Buyer of $450 mn Da Vinci: WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s crown prince is the true buyer of the Leonardo Da Vinci painting that sold last month for a record $450 million, the Wall Street Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p>Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has undertaken an anti-corruption campaign, bought the painting using a distant relative as a \u201cproxy,\u201d the newspaper said Thursday, citing a source in the US government intelligence community and a Saudi art-world figure familiar with the purchase. It didn\u2019t identify either person.<\/p>\n<p>The crown prince, known by his initials MBS, used Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud to handle the acquisition, the Journal said. But Prince Mohammed is identified as the painting\u2019s buyer in US intelligence reports, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times on Wednesday identified Prince Bader as the acquirer, citing documents it reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>Christie\u2019s, the auction house that sold the painting, disclosed that the Da Vinci will be going to the Louvre Abu Dhabi. In a Tweet yesterday, the museum confirmed that it\u2019s getting the painting.<\/p>\n<p>Christie\u2019s has declined to comment on the buyer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong> WSJ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s crown prince is the true buyer of the Leonardo Da Vinci painting that sold last month for a record $450 million, the Wall Street Journal reported. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has undertaken an anti-corruption campaign, bought the painting using a distant relative as a \u201cproxy,\u201d the newspaper said Thursday, citing a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12442,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12440\/revisions\/12442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}