Saudi Arabian company Aramco’s executive was jailed for a week in Chamoli
A senior executive of Saudi Arabia’s well-known oil company Aramco was detained by the police in Uttarakhand for about a week.
He was in Chamoli, Uttarakhand on leave when the police arrested him in July for possessing a satellite phone without permission. He was released after a fine of one thousand rupees.
The English newspaper Indian Express has given prominent place to this news of the Financial Times newspaper of Britain. Fergus MacLeod is the Head of Investor Relations at Aramco, Saudi Arabia.
He told the Financial Times that on July 12, police arrested him from a hotel near the Valley of Flowers National Park. Fergus, 62, was kept in Chamoli jail till July 18.
According to the report of the Financial Times, the police reached the hotel with the help of his phone till the British executive. McLeod says he was turning on and off the phone at the hotel but did not use the phone while on vacation with friends. He also had some friends working in Saudi Aramco with him. A part of Chamoli is adjacent to the Line of Actual Control with China.
