An official source in the Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority stated that the Authority announced a number of verdicts on cases it has previously initiated; the perpetrators were referred to the Criminal Court in Riyadh (financial and administrative corruption cases divisions), which resulted in the issuance of first instance and final rulings that acquired the final status as proven guilty. Most prominent of which are as follow:
The first verdict: first instance ruling convicting a Royal Highnesses (an employee at the Ministry of Municipal, Rural Affairs and Housing), a student officer of the Military colleges affiliated with the ministry of Defense and an expatriate of an Arab nationality; the first and second benefited from forged academic qualifications and their use in obtaining a government job and the expatriate acted as a mediator in order for them to obtain those forged qualifications. A verdict was issued against them for imprisonment to the first for period of (2) years and a fine of (100,000) one hundred thousand riyals, and the second for a period of (1) year and six months, and a fine of (50,000) fifty thousand riyals, and the third for (1) year and a fine of (20,000) twenty thousand riyals.
The second verdict: first instance ruling convicting the commander of one of the security sectors at the Ministry of Interior with the rank of Major General for forgery, administrative misuse, abuse of the influence of the public office to achieve personal gains and engage in private business; he was punished with imprisonment for (8) years and a fine of (160,000) one hundred and sixty thousand riyals. As well as the conviction of an officer with the rank of a major working who works in the same sector by participating in forgery and administrative misuse, he was punished with imprisonment for a period of (2) years and six months and a fine of (100,000) one hundred thousand riyals. A non-commissioned officer was also convicted for forgery and punished with (3) years in prison and a fine of (200,000) two hundred thousand riyals, and an officer with the rank of brigadier General working in a different security sector affiliated with the Ministry of Interior, in association with the Major General in administrative misuse and engage in private business commerce and was Punished with imprisonment for (2) years and a fine of (10,000) ten thousand riyals, and the conviction of a businessman who participated in administrative misuse and money laundering and was punished with imprisonment for (4) years and six months and a fine of (150,000) one hundred and fifty thousand riyals, and a ban from traveling outside the Kingdom for (3) years, finally a businessman was convicted of forging documents and was punished with a (2) years imprisonment and a fine of (200,000) two hundred thousand riyals.
The third verdict: first instance ruling against the commander of one of the security sectors at the Ministry of Interior with the rank of a Major General for forgery, abuse of the influence of the public office, squandering of public money and administrative misuse; he was punished with (10) years imprisonment and a fine of (200,000) two hundred thousand riyals, and four officers who work in the same sector were convicted with forgery and exploitation of the influence of the public office and participation in squandering of public money and administrative misuse, the were punished with imprisonment for periods ranging from (3) to (6) years and a fine of (50,000) fifty thousand riyals. As well as convicting a businessman for squandering public money and punishing him with imprisonment for (5) years.
The fourth verdict: first instance ruling convicting an officer who works in one of the prisons affiliated with the Ministry of Interior for attempting to smuggle in (cell phones) into the prison, taking advantage of the nature of his work, and punishing him with imprisonment for (2) years.
The fifth verdict: first instance ruling convicting two employees of a real estate appraisal company for bribery as a result of responding to their brother’s request for breaching their job duties by valuating a property belonging to their brother resulting in punishing the first and second (employees) with imprisonment for (2) years and a fine of (20,000) twenty thousand riyals, and imprisonment of the third with a (1) year and six months and a fine of (30,000) thirty thousand riyals.
The sixth verdict: first instance ruling convicting a number of employees of a security guard company with bribery and taking advantage of government support (SANED) provided due to the Corona Virus Pandemic illegally and punishing them with imprisonment for periods ranging from (1) to (4) years and fines amounting to (75,000) seventy five thousand riyals.
The seventh verdict: first instance ruling convicting an employee in a court for exploiting his influence for personal benefit through his attempt to form illegal relationships, and punishing him with imprisonment of (5) years.
The eighth verdict: first instance ruling convicting two employees from the Ministry of Health, four citizens, and an expatriate with bribery and breach of trust by exploiting contracts between the ministry and some hotels prepared for quarantine in one of the regions to receive people from outside the Kingdom during the Corona Virus pandemic and punishing them with imprisonment for periods ranging from six months to (5) Years and fines starting from (10,000) ten thousand riyals and up to (90,000) ninety thousand riyals.
The ninth verdict: final ruling convicting a security officer who works in the General Directorate of Prisons in one of the regions of bribery, breaching the duties of his job and exploiting the influence of the public office through his request to form an illegal relationship with the wife of a detainee (an expatriate) and her acceptance of this in exchange for providing services and facilities to her arrested husband; and he was punished with imprisonment for (2) years and ten months and a fine of (30,000) thirty thousand riyals, and the female expatriate was convicted for making a promise to form an illegal relationship with the first, and punished with imprisonment for (2) years and ten months and a fine of (30,000) thirty thousand riyals.
The tenth verdict: first instance ruling convicting an employee of a university for embezzling public money and forgery; and he was punished with imprisonment for (12) years and a fine of (200,000) two hundred thousand riyals.
The eleventh verdict: a final ruling convicting an employee of the Ministry of Defense, a citizen and two expatriates, of forging official documents of (permits during the curfew period attributed to the Ministry of Defense) and punishing them with imprisonments for (5) years and a fine of (100,000) riyals one hundred thousand riyals.
The twelfth verdict: first instance ruling convicting an officer with the rank of Brigadier General who works in security patrols in one of the regions for exploiting the influence of the public office for personal gains in using an official vehicle to facilitate the crossing of an acquaintance from the security points during the curfew period, and he was punished with a (5) years imprisonment.
The thirteenth verdict: first instance ruling convicting a member of the Public Prosecution office for bribery for obtaining an amount of (300,000) three hundred thousand riyals from the owner of a commercial entity through a mediator (citizen) in exchange for following up on a case that belongs to him in the Ministry of Commerce until it is received by the Public Prosecution regarding his involvement in a case of a commercial concealment; the member was punished with imprisonment for (2) years and a fine of (40,000) forty thousand riyals, and an employee at the Ministry of Commerce has been convicted of bribery for requesting an amount of (300,000) three hundred thousand riyals in exchange for ending the procedures of the same paperwork at the Ministry of Commerce through the same mediator and punishing him with imprisonment for (1) year and six months and a fine of (40,000) forty thousand riyals, and the mediator was convicted of bribery for having coordinated between the owner of the commercial entity, the member of the Public Prosecution, and the employee of the Ministry of Commerce and his request for an amount of (100,000) one hundred thousand riyals in exchange for that, and he was punished with imprisonment for (2) years and a fine of (40,000) forty thousand riyals. Another member of the Public Prosecution was convicted of bribery for requesting an amount (5,000,000) five million riyals from the owner of the same commercial entity through a mediator (citizen) in exchange for following up and ending the same case; he was punished with imprisonment for (1) year and six months and a fine of (30,000) thirty thousand riyals and the mediator was convicted also and punished with imprisonment for (1) year and three months and a fine of (30,000) thirty thousand riyals.
The fourteenth verdict: following up on the case of the collapse of the parking lot in a private university, and after the Authority finalized its investigations and the provision of the efficient evidence to bring the accusation to the parties of the case, the perpetrators were referred to the Criminal Court in Riyadh and in accordance with the judicial procedures, the Court of Appeal issued a verdict convicting the university owner of bribery by employing and providing an exceptional discount on university tuition fees for relatives and acquaintances of the Chair of the municipality which the university is under and an employee at the Ministry of Higher Education (previously) as a subsequent reward for them in exchange for issuing necessary permits to operate the university without fulfilling the official requirements; he was punished with imprisonment of (2) years and a fine of (500,000) five hundred thousand riyals, as well as convicting an official at the Ministry of Higher Education (previously) of bribery by obtaining an exceptional discount on tuition fees for two students of his acquaintances in exchange for issuing the necessary permits to operate the university without meeting the criteria and punishing him with imprisonment for (3) years and a fine of (500,000) five hundred thousand riyals, and the conviction of the chair of the municipality of bribery and administrative misuse by employing two of his relatives at the university in exchange for issuing the necessary permits to operate the university without fulfilling the required criteria and applying a number of royal grants to his relatives in the governorate in which he works in an irregular manner and punishing him with (10) years imprisonment and a fine of (10,000,000) ten million riyals, and convicting (5) employees of the municipality with bribery and administrative misuse by facilitating the application of a number of royal grants for relatives of the chair of the governorate’s municipality in which they work in an irregular manner and punishing them with imprisonment for periods ranging from (1) to (5) years and a fine for one of them of (100,000) one hundred one thousand riyals.
The fifteenth verdict: first instance and final rulings to convict a number of expatriates for offering sums of money as a bribe "that were not accepted from them" to security officers and public employees to carry out or abstain from certain duties, and sentencing them to imprisonment for periods ranging from six months to (5) years.
The sixteenth verdict: first instance and final rulings convicting a number of public employees in a number of government sectors who work in private businesses while they are occupying government jobs, in violation of the regulations and instructions that prohibit this action.
The Authority affirms on the continuation to pursue anyone who exploits the public office to achieve personal gain or harm the public interest in any way possible, and that the accountability extends far beyond the retirement of any individual, as the crimes of financial and administrative corruption have no statute of limitations, and that it will apply what the law rules against the violators with zero tolerance.