RIYADH - An official source in the Saudi Control and Anti-Corruption Authority stated that the authority has initiated a number of criminal cases during the last period, and the legal procedures against them are being completed.
The main issues were as follows:
The first case: In cooperation with one of the authority’s international counterparts, a resident working in a local company was arrested for receiving bank transfers to his personal accounts outside the Kingdom “Republic of Switzerland” totaling (1,296,061) one million two hundred and ninety-six thousand and sixty-one riyals from the manager of a foreign company. In return for the foreign company obtaining a subcontract with the company in which he works and contracting with a university.

The second case: the arrest of five employees working at the Ministry of Health in one of the regions, for having seized the amount of (9,263,900) nine million two hundred and sixty-three thousand and nine hundred riyals, which is the salaries and entitlements of the foreign ministry employees who left the Kingdom after the expiry of their contracts, by amending and adding numbers Bank accounts belonging to them and their acquaintances.

Case Three: Suspension of a retired pilot general from the Royal Saudi Air Force at the Ministry of Defense for obtaining an amount of (9,000,000) nine million riyals in installments and a luxury vehicle estimated at a market value of (500,000) five hundred thousand riyals from a resident working in a company contracting with the Air Force in exchange for facilitating procedures Disbursing the company's financial dues in an irregular manner during his work, and forcing some Air Force employees to deposit the amounts of rented buildings from the Ministry into his bank accounts and seizing them.

The fourth case: the arrest of a retired non-commissioned officer from the Ministry of Defense for obtaining an amount of (945,000) nine hundred and forty-five thousand riyals in installments from a commercial entity, using the bank accounts of a “suspended” citizen, in return for certifying the commercial entity with supplying to one of the Ministry’s sectors in an irregular manner.

Case Five: The arrest in flagrante delicto of a resident (intermediary) working as a consulting engineer in the Secretariat of one of the regions, while receiving an amount of (520,000) five hundred and twenty thousand riyals, in exchange for enabling a commercial entity to obtain contracts for the implementation of projects worth (1,000,000) million riyals without implementing them on land In fact, as it was found through investigations that the amount of (500,000) five hundred thousand riyals of the total amount seized was requested by the mayor of one of the governorates, "which was stopped later."

Case Six: An officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel working in the General Directorate of Civil Defense in one of the regions was arrested for obtaining an amount of (509,000) five hundred and nine thousand riyals in installments from two residents working in a commercial entity, in return for awarding tenders for repair and maintenance of equipment, vehicles and stairs to the commercial entity in an irregular manner.

Case Seven: Two residents working in a quality inspection laboratory affiliated with a private company were arrested for obtaining an amount of (128,000) one hundred and twenty-eight thousand riyals from the owner of a customs clearance office “stopped” in return for tampering with the results of examining samples of goods imported from abroad, and ending their procedures for entry into the Kingdom Irregular way through one of the seaports.

Case Eight: Arresting an employee at a university for seizing the sum of (103.827) one hundred and three thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven thousand riyals, the value of compensation for foreign students’ tickets at the university.

The ninth case: the arrest of an employee working in the secretariat of one of the regions, due to the presence of large financial transactions in his bank accounts inside and outside the Kingdom, and his possession of real estate that is not commensurate with his job income. Plans and issuance of building permits, in an irregular manner.

The tenth case: Two soldiers working at the General Directorate of Passports were arrested in one of the land ports for obtaining an amount of (65,000) sixty five thousand riyals in return for illegally entering people into the Kingdom.

Case Eleven: Arresting three soldiers working in the General Directorate of Prisons in one of the regions, for obtaining sums of money in return for smuggling contraband to prison inmates.

Case Twelfth: Suspension of an engineer working in the Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones in one of the regions for obtaining an amount of (70,000) seventy thousand riyals, from the owner of a commercial entity through two (suspended) residents, one of whom works in an engineering consultancy office, and the other in a general contracting establishment, in exchange for Obtaining licenses and approving engineering plans in an irregular manner.

Case Thirteen: Arresting an employee working at the Ministry of Justice in one of the regions, for obtaining an amount of (200,000) two hundred thousand riyals from a female resident in return for her promise and his claim of being able to issue a judgment acquitting her son.

The authority confirms that it continues to monitor and control anyone who infringes on public money or exploits the position to achieve his personal interest or to harm the public interest and to hold him accountable even after the end of his relationship with the job, because the crimes of financial and administrative corruption do not fall within the statute of limitations, and that the authority is continuing to implement what the system requires against transgressors without compromise.