A Qatari Shaikh is being sued by his former head of security and his ex-medic for $34 million.
Ex-Marine Matthew Pittard worked as a bodyguard for Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, brother of Qatar's ruler, between 2017 and 2018.
Pittard claims that during his tenure the prince ordered him to kill two people in California.
In an Interview to ABC Action News Pittard revealed that in the first month of joining Shaikh Khalid asked him to kill a man who had come to collect an alleged $6,000 debt.
Pittard says he refused and paid off the debt himself.
A few months later, the prince asked Pittard to kill a woman on suspicion of texting with another man.
Pittard said that he again refused and told the billionaire not to ever ask him to do that again.
The following year, in July and while working in Qatar, Pittard learnt about an American medic - Matthew Allende - being held hostage by Shaikh Khalid.
Pittard claims he helped his compatriot escape but was held prisoner by Shaikh Khalid after he found out about his role in the escape.
He says he was threatened and forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement at gunpoint.
Meanwhile, Allende, who worked for Shaikh Khalid from October 2017 to February 2018, says he was routinely asked to work for 24 or 36 hours straight during wild parties.
Allende claims he was held hostage and injured himself trying to escape.
The two are now suing the prince for millions of dollars in unpaid wages and overtime, unfair dismissal, personal injury and other malpractice.
This is not the first time when the prince is in the news for the wrong reason.
In 2015, he was forced to leave the US after a video of him speeding and skipping stop signs in Beverly Hills in a Ferrari went viral.
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He allegedly threatened to kill the man who was video recording the incident. He then claimed diplomatic immunity when police arrived.
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