Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this month, met with the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Prince Khalid bin Salman, at the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C. in late 2017 or early 2018, according to a new report.

Sources with knowledge of the meeting, which was confirmed by the Saudi Embassy, said that the Saudi government tried to convince Khashoggi to come back to Saudi Arabia for at least a year. According to NBC News, Prince Khalid, who is the brother of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and senior Royal Court adviser Saud bin Abdullah Al Qahtani had reached out to Khashoggi attempting to persuade him to return.