Prince smuggles cocaine in private jet

A United States court has convicted two people of smuggling 2 tonnes of Colombian cocaine to France on a Saudi Arabian Prince's private jet.

Prosecutors said they would keep trying to bring Prince Nayef bin Sultan bin Fawwaz al-Shaalan to trial. He is believed to have been in Saudi Arabia since US authorities charged him in 2002.

The two people convicted were al-Shaalan's one-time girlfriend, Coral Gables, and real estate broker Doris Mangeri Salazar.