Saudi "Integrity" reveals details of 16 new corruption cases

Today, the Saudi Anti-Corruption Commission, "Nazaha", announced the details of 16 new cases, as it revealed the arrest of employees in several ministries, including: "Interior, Health, Defense and Municipalities", in addition to a bank employee for obtaining in-kind gifts, travel and accommodation expenses from a citizen and resident, who were arrested in exchange for Depositing anonymous cash amounts of up to 7 million riyals in bank accounts belonging to a commercial entity.

In detail, an official source in the Control and Anti-Corruption Authority stated that the authority has initiated a number of criminal cases during the last period, and the legal procedures are being completed in their regard.

The most prominent cases were as follows: The first case: In cooperation with the Presidency of State Security and the Central Bank of Saudi Arabia, a bank employee was arrested for obtaining in-kind gifts and travel and accommodation expenses from a citizen and resident who were “stopped” in return for depositing unknown cash amounts of up to (7,000,000) Seven million riyals in bank accounts belonging to a commercial entity, as it was proven through investigations that the total amounts deposited in the accounts of the commercial entity by the citizen and resident with banks operating in the Kingdom amounted to (136,000,000) one hundred and thirty-six million riyals were transferred outside the Kingdom within a period of (5) months.

The second case: the arrest in flagrante delicto of a resident working in an engineering consultancy office in one of the regions while receiving an amount of (400,000) four hundred thousand riyals out of the amount of (2,800,000) two million and eight hundred thousand riyals in return for completing the procedures for issuing a building permit for an industrial workshop complex in an irregular manner by an employee of one of the employees The municipality in the same area, who was arrested in flagrante delicto the moment he received the amount of (1,000,000) million riyals, and it was proven through investigations that another resident was involved in the case and was arrested.

The third case: The arrest in flagrante delicto of a resident working as an engineer for a telecom company and two residents “intermediaries” at the moment they received an amount of (225,000) two hundred and twenty-five thousand riyals out of an agreed sum of (450,000) four hundred and fifty thousand riyals, in exchange for extending the contract for the implementation of networks for the company with one of Commercial entities, after the engineer sends an email containing the cancellation of the contract in order to pressure the owner of the commercial entity to pay the amount.

The fourth case: the arrest in flagrante delicto of a resident at the moment he received the sum of (162,000) one hundred and sixty-two thousand riyals in return for a reduction of a fine that was issued from the municipality of one of the governorates on a warehouse, and it was proven through investigations that the beneficiary of the amount was the director of technical affairs in the same municipality, who was arrested In flagrante delicto the moment he received the amount from the aforementioned resident, and during the investigation it was found that the employee had previously obtained (1,000,000) one million riyals in payments in return for carrying out transactions in an irregular manner that were used to purchase real estate.

The fifth case: the arrest in flagrante delicto of an employee in a municipality of one of the governorates the moment he received the sum of (150,000) one hundred and fifty thousand riyals out of the sum of (250,000) two hundred and fifty thousand riyals in return for the approval of the decision of the committee to correct the situation of a violating building.

Case Six: The arrest in flagrante delicto of an employee of the eighth rank in the Security and Safety Department of Health Affairs in one of the governorates at the moment he received an amount of (50,000) fifty thousand riyals in return for facilitating the procedures for receiving the work of implementing the project of security and safety requirements implemented by a commercial entity for the benefit of health affairs. A resident (intermediary) for negotiating with the commercial entity for payment of the amount.

Case Seven: The arrest in flagrante delicto of a resident working as a medical operations analyst in a charitable association at the moment of receiving an amount of (15,000) fifteen thousand riyals in return for issuing an approval from the association that includes its guarantee of the treatment of one of the residents.

Case Eight: The arrest in flagrante delicto of the Director of the Reports and Violations Department in a municipality at the moment he received an amount of (5,000) five thousand riyals in exchange for removing the notice of review that he placed on a building and allowing the owner of the building to complete its restoration without obtaining a license from the municipality.

The ninth case: The arrest in flagrante delicto of an observer in the municipality of one of the governorates, the moment he received the sum of (1,000) thousand riyals in return for not issuing a violation of the lack of a license for a workshop.

The tenth case: In cooperation with the Ministry of Interior, two employees of the Traffic Department in one of the governorates and (4) residents working as transport drivers (trucks for transporting damaged or broken cars) were arrested, for obtaining an amount of (3,000) three thousand riyals per month in exchange for handing over wireless devices in their custody to the residents with the aim of Locating traffic accident sites as soon as they occur and directing them to load the damaged vehicles.

Case 11: In cooperation with the Ministry of Interior, two non-commissioned officers working in the Traffic Department of one of the governorates were arrested, for seizing funds collected from traffic accident perpetrators as compensation for owners of damaged vehicles, and for not delivering those funds to the beneficiaries.

The twelfth case: the arrest of an employee in the municipality of one of the governorates, for carrying out the activity of Nahl al-Rimal from the areas he supervises and selling it to him in an irregular manner.

Case 13: In cooperation with the Ministry of Interior, three non-commissioned officers at the Traffic Department of one of the regions, and a resident, were arrested for selling impounded motorcycles to the resident's traffic after disabling surveillance cameras.

Case 14: In cooperation with the Ministry of Defense, an employee working in a hospital affiliated with the Ministry in one of the regions was arrested for obtaining sums of money in return for issuing sick leave to patients.

Case 15: Suspension of an observer working at a boys' school in one of the regions for obtaining sums of money from residents in exchange for their children's enrollment in the school.

Case 16: Suspension of an employee of the Ministry of Health and two citizens (intermediaries) for obtaining sums of money in exchange for modifying the health status of a number of immunized citizens without receiving the vaccine.

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