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Shola Shopping Center

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was indicted on federal corruption charges for taking campaign funds for personal use. He opted to represent himself, insisting that the trial was part of a vendetta against him dating back to his 1983 trial. After a two-month federal trial, on April 11, 2002, he was convicted of 10
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On 22 November 2012, an unexpected fire broke out in the north-east corner of the complex at 3 am (local time). The Saudi Civil Defense immediately reached the site brought the fire under control. Shola suffered heavy damage in material, never to reopen again.
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and was found guilty of illegally providing $ 30,000 worth of construction work to build an addition and deck at Traficant's farmhouse in 1993 in exchange for extracting $ 11.6 million from
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and Bernard J. Bucheit Jr over payment issues when the prince allegedly refused to pay him in order to settle an earlier dispute and detained 15 employees of Bucheit in
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were accused of harassing and misbehaving with the customers and visitors in the shopping complex in the pretext of enforcing Islamic norms. When
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United States Congressional Serial Set, Serial No. 14790, House Report No. 594, in the Matter of James A. Traficant, Jr., V. 6
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In the Matter of Representative James A. Traficant, Jr: Report of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
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began in 1990 and as US soldiers arrived in the country, including female troops and journalists, the
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by withholding their exit visas, until a negotiated settlement was reached for their release.
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Shola Shopping Center was one of the three branches of Shola chain of commercial markets in
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in 1991, then US ambassador to Saudi Arabia regarding Bucheit's case on behalf of the
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and was sentenced to eight years in prison. In 2003, as part of the probe against
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Shola Shopping Center was also infamous for being prone to frequent raids by the
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The House of Saud in Commerce: A Study of Royal Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia
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of grave consequences if he ever saw them patrolling nearby the complex again.
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increased its activity in order to contain the "so-called"
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Traficant even wrote to 16:Defunct shopping mall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 8: 801:"اندلاع حريق في مركز تجاري لأمير سعودي بارز" 399:"المقرن: مارينا مول أحدث مركز تجاري بالدمام" 345:counts including bribery, racketeering, and 19: 750:"Contractor Convicted of Bribing Traficant" 287:Committee on Standards of Official Conduct 18: 724:"Businessman on Trial in Traficant Probe" 584:. U.S. Government Printing Office. 2002. 304:, the Saudi religious police. After the 390: 851:Shopping malls disestablished in 2012 644: 642: 324:took notice of it, he threatened the 216:Shola Shopping Center was founded by 153:Prince Mishaal bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud 7: 475: 473: 471: 469: 218:Prince Mishaal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud 193:Prince Mishaal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud 168: 846:Shopping malls established in 1984 831:Buildings and structures in Riyadh 481:"Some Saudis won't pay, firms say" 38:Shola Shopping Center in the 1980s 14: 678:. 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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Coordinates
24°40′35″N 46°43′8″E / 24.67639°N 46.71889°E / 24.67639; 46.71889
Prince Mishaal bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud
Arabic
romanized
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Prince Mishaal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud
Al Shoula Group
King Fahd
Prince Mishaal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud
King Fahd
Al Shoula Group
The Washington Post
Prince Mishaal
dollars
Youngstown
Riyadh
Prince Mishaal
Riyadh
Prince Mishaal
U.S. Congress
Rep.
James A. Traficant Jr
Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
commerce secretaries
dollars

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