The Saudi Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) has arrested 15 individuals involved in committing corruption crimes, and legal procedures against them have been completed.

The authority revealed the arrest of a Saudi businessman after he offered an amount of (1,600,000) one million six hundred thousand riyals to a customs broker in exchange for facilitating the entry of two shipping containers through the Jeddah Islamic Port containing restricted tobacco, in return for not paying the government customs duties due on that shipment amounting to (14,000,000) fourteen million riyals.

Nazaha stated that it arrested an employee of the Saudi Ministry of Health in one of the regions for receiving an amount of (900,000) nine hundred thousand riyals in installments in exchange for awarding several projects to a commercial entity through irregular means.

The statement issued Wednesday evening said that, in cooperation with the Saudi Ministry of Energy, a resident working on one of the ministry's projects was arrested while receiving an amount of (200,000) two hundred thousand riyals in exchange for not issuing fines and penalties against a commercial entity worth (1,500,000) one million five hundred thousand riyals.

In the same context, the authority arrested a resident working for an engineering consulting office and appointed as an expert by the commercial court in a commercial dispute case while he was receiving an amount of (50,000) fifty thousand riyals out of an agreed amount of (100,000) one hundred thousand riyals, in exchange for preparing a technical report in favor of one of the disputing parties through irregular means.

Nazaha, in cooperation with the Saudi Ministry of Interior, arrested a former military officer in the General Directorate of Passports for receiving amounts totaling (60,500) in exchange for completing procedures for transactions concerning expatriates through irregular means, and also arrested an employee of the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority in one of the regions while he was receiving an amount of (55,000) fifty-five thousand riyals in exchange for irregularly modifying the status of goods entering the kingdom.

Meanwhile, two employees working in the municipality of one of the governorates were arrested for receiving an amount of (40,000) in exchange for completing transaction procedures through irregular means, and an employee working in the secretariat of one of the regions was arrested while receiving an amount of (10,000) ten thousand out of an agreed amount of (50,000) fifty thousand, in exchange for irregularly completing a transaction procedure in the secretariat.

Meanwhile, an employee of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development in one of the regions was arrested while receiving an amount of (10,000) in exchange for not issuing violations against a commercial entity during his field inspections.

The tenth case included the arrest of an employee of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development in one of the governorates, and a citizen, as the employee received an amount of (2,500) two thousand five hundred riyals from the citizen in exchange for handing over an incorrect letter addressed to the General Directorate of Passports to cancel a report of absence for an expatriate with the aim of transferring his sponsorship to the citizen.

Nazaha indicated that it arrested four employees working in the municipality of one of the governorates for employing a number of citizens related to them through irregular means, and for disbursing salary amounts to a number of residents working in the municipality and benefiting from them through irregular means.

The twelfth case involved the arrest of a resident working in one of the health facilities for receiving an amount in exchange for issuing a medical examination report and laboratory test for an expatriate without his presence, and attaching the reports via the electronic platform of the (Baladi) system.

Nazaha stated that, in cooperation with the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance, it arrested an employee of the ministry in one of the regions for seizing a number of computers while working as the warehouse custodian of the ministry in the region.

The results of Nazaha's statement showed that the fourteenth case involved the arrest of an employee working at a driving school in one of the governorates while he was receiving a sum of money from a resident in exchange for completing the procedures for issuing a driver's license without attending the school.

In parallel, the director of a periodic inspection station and an employee at the same station in one of the regions were arrested for receiving sums of money in exchange for completing vehicle inspection procedures through irregular means.

The official spokesman for the authority confirmed that it continues to monitor and arrest anyone who encroaches on public funds or exploits their position to achieve personal interest or harm the public interest, and to hold them accountable even after their relationship with the job ends, as financial and administrative corruption crimes are not subject to statute of limitations, stressing that the authority proceeds to implement what the law stipulates against violators without leniency.

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