An official source in the Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority stated that the Authority initiated a number of criminal cases lately, and legal procedures against the accused are underway.
Most prominent of which were as follow:
The first case: In cooperation with the Ministry of Interior, the Public Prosecution, the Presidency of State Security, and the Saudi Central Bank, (3) bank employees (operations manager, tellers) and (11) residents, were arrested for establishing commercial entities in the names of their relatives, opening bank accounts managed by the residents and depositing illegal money amounting to (505,725,336) five hundred and five million seven hundred twenty five thousand three hundred and thirty six riyals, and transferred them outside the Kingdom while obtaining a percentage of those amounts in exchange for facilitating the deposit procedures. The residents also admitted to using bank accounts for more than (40) commercial entities in depositing sums of money and transferring them abroad; work is underway to specify those entities and take necessary measures against their owners in accordance with the laws and regulations.
The second case: the arrest of two employees who work in the Ministry of Municipal, Rural Affairs and Housing, and a citizen, for participating in the establishment of a commercial entity and obtaining sub-projects from foreign companies in contract with the Ministry. The total value of the contracts they obtained amounted to (10,000,000) ten million riyals.
The third case: the arrest of a judge who works as (head of a division in a commercial court in one of the regions) red handed for obtaining an amount of (19,500) nineteen thousand and five hundred riyals, from an employee of an engineering consultancy office in exchange for awarding an arbitration case in a commercial dispute between two companies, and for also obtaining, previously, from other consultancy engineering offices an amount of (22,000) twenty two thousand riyals in exchange for awarding arbitration cases.
The fourth case: the arrest of a member of the Public Prosecution, red handed, for obtaining an amount of (30,000) thirty thousand riyals in exchange for keeping a case pending, and delaying taking a decision about it for (7) months in order to pressure one of its parties to obtain a sum of money.
The fifth case: the arrest of a notary public and a faculty member in a university, where the first obtained an amount of (20,000) twenty thousand riyals in exchange for completing the procedures of transferring a land to the second in an irregular manner.
The sixth case: the arrest of an employee who holds two positions the manager of the Quran Memorization complex and a high school Director in the Ministry of Education in one of the regions; for stealing (153,942) one hundred and fifty three thousand nine hundred and forty two riyals from the money submitted to her by the ministry which was allocated for the complex expenditure.
The seventh case: the arrest of an employee who works as the Head of the Social Security Unit at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development in one of the governorates for registering a number of his acquaintances as beneficiaries using forged medical reports and disbursing the subsidy assigned to them according to those reports. The total amounted to (500,000) five hundred thousand riyals.
The eighth case: the arrest of an employee who works as an inspector at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development and (6) residents red handed; for the employee’s involvement in notifying the residents of inspection visits beforehand to request money from the sites to be visited in exchange for not fining them for their violations. The aforementioned were arrested after obtaining (10,000) ten thousand riyals from one of the sites and handed it over to the employee.
The ninth case: the arrest of an employee who works in the Ministry of Health for obtaining sums of money from citizens in exchange for their employment in the Ministry. The total he obtained amounted to (40,000) forty thousand riyals.
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.