Saudi Arabia: dismissal of two members of the royal family accused of corruption

Two members of the royal family and four officers are targeted by the investigation for corruption launched within the Ministry of Defense at the request of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.

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Saudi official media announced on Tuesday morning the dismissal of a senior Saudi soldier and his son.

One was the commander of the coalition forces in Yemen, the other vice-emir of the Al-Jouf region.

Both are members of the royal family and are accused of corruption. 

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Alongside them, four other officers are particularly targeted by the investigation for corruption launched within the Ministry of Defense and at the request of Crown Prince

.

It is therefore a new blow in the fight against this endemic scourge against which the regime claims to be fighting for years.

Last March, nearly 300 senior government officials were arrested on the same charges.

In 2017,

for corruption in the luxury Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh.

A detention which lasted for some several weeks, and ended with financial agreements with the government.

Critics of the regime accuse the crown prince of using the fight against corruption as an excuse to rule out potential rivals to his succession to the throne and consolidate his control over the country's security and the crackdown on dissenting voices.

The NGO

last March denounced unfair prosecutions in an opaque judicial system.

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