US senator warns top Saudi over refusal to testify on PGA golf deal

Richard Blumenthal to consider other legal methods' to compel Yasir al-Rumayyan to speak to Senate oversight committee

A senior US lawmaker has challenged a Saudi Arabian official's refusal to voluntarily testify before a Senate committee investigating the kingdom's controversial golf deal with the PGA Tour, saying officials should be prepared to be subject to American laws and oversight if they invest in the US.

Richard Blumenthal, a Democratic senator from Connecticut who serves as chairman of the Senate's permanent subcommittee on investigations, also said he would consider other legal methods" to force Yasir al-Rumayyan, the governor of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), to testify if he continued to refuse.