 "The Ritz Carlton has been taken over the by the government and turned into a luxury prison.")
After being summoned by an aide to King Salman on Nov. 4, a prominent Saudi showed up at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh expecting a royal audience. Instead, armed men took his mobile phone and escorted him to a hotel room.
“I was told I would be staying here for some time,” the man recalled recently.
Over the next 99 days, the Saudi government would close the Ritz-Carlton as a hotel and detain 381 people there in an unprecedented anticorruption campaign against its most elite citizens.
The Ritz-Carlton reopened on Sunday as a hotel, marking the end of a phase of the crackdown
