Saudi Arabia has reportedly threatened to imprison bankers and consultants it works with if they cooperate with the US Senate's probe into the proposed merger of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.
As negotiations between the Tour and LIV's financiers, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, continue, the US senate committee is continuing to carry out its investigation into the merger of golf's two previously warring factions.
However, as the committee carries out its probe, bankers and consultants who advise PIF have testified that they face 'criminal and financial penalties' if they cooperate.
According to a report by Bloomberg News, the PIF sued its advisers in a Saudi court last November preventing them from sharing information with the US Senate committee on homeland security and governmental affairs.