Aramco

Saudi Aramco's head of investor relations Fergus MacLeod was imprisoned in India over the summer for carrying a satellite phone.

"It was a frightening place and a highly traumatic experience, where I was in a communal cell with long-term prisoners who had committed very serious crimes," MacLeod said of his imprisonment, according to the FT. Fergus MacLeod, the 62-year-old head of investor relations at the oil giant, said he was arrested on 12 July at his hotel in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand in the Himalayas, according to [Saudi Aramco](https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/saudi-oil-giant-aramco-sponsor-crickets-world-body), the world's biggest oil exporter, was imprisoned in [India](https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/india-modi-govt-approved-release-muslim-womans-rapists) in July for having a satellite phone while on holiday close to New Delhi's restive border with [China](https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/china-what-happened-xis-communist-party-congress).