The Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority Initiates Several Criminal Cases
The official spokesman of the Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority stated that the authority has initiated several criminal cases during the past period, and legal procedures are being completed against their perpetrators. The most prominent cases were as follows: * First case: Arrest of a citizen (businessman) for offering an amount of (1,600,000) one million six hundred thousand riyals to a customs clearance agent in exchange for facilitating the entry of two shipping containers through Jeddah Islamic Port containing restricted (tobacco) material, in return for not paying the due government customs duties on that shipment amounting to (14,000,000) fourteen million riyals. * Second case: Arrest of an employee working at the Ministry of Health in one of the regions for obtaining an amount of (900,000) nine hundred thousand riyals in installments in exchange for awarding a number of projects to a commercial entity in an irregular manner. * Third case: In cooperation with the Ministry of Energy, a resident working on one of the ministry’s projects was apprehended at the moment of receiving an amount of (200,000) two hundred thousand riyals in exchange for not issuing fines and violations against a commercial entity amounting to (1,500,000) one million five hundred thousand riyals. * Fourth case: Arrest of a resident working for an engineering consulting office and appointed as an expert by the commercial court in a commercial dispute case at the moment of 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 in an irregular manner. * Fifth case: In cooperation with the Ministry of Interior, a former military personnel in the General Directorate of Passports was stopped for obtaining financial amounts totaling (60,500) sixty thousand five hundred riyals, in exchange for completing procedures for expatriates' transactions in an irregular manner. * Sixth case: Arrest of an employee working at the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority in one of the regions at the moment of receiving an amount of (55,000) fifty-five thousand riyals, in exchange for modifying the status of goods entering the Kingdom in an irregular manner. * Seventh case: Stop of two employees working at the municipality of one of the governorates for obtaining an amount of (40,000) forty thousand riyals in exchange for completing procedures for transactions in an irregular manner. * Eighth case: Arrest of an employee working at the secretariat of one of the regions at the moment of receiving an amount of (10,000) ten thousand riyals out of an agreed amount of (50,000) fifty thousand riyals, in exchange for completing a transaction procedure in the secretariat in an irregular manner. * Ninth case: Arrest of an employee working at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development in one of the regions at the moment of receiving an amount of (10,000) ten thousand riyals, in exchange for not issuing violations against a commercial entity during his field inspections. * Tenth case: Stop of an employee working at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development in one of the governorates, and a citizen, for obtaining an amount of (2,500) two thousand five hundred riyals from the latter in exchange for handing over an incorrect letter addressed to the General Directorate of Passports to cancel an absence report on an expatriate with the aim of transferring his sponsorship to the latter. * Eleventh case: Stop of four employees working at the municipality of one of the governorates for employing a number of citizens related to them by kinship in an irregular manner, and disbursing salaries to a number of resident workers in the municipality and benefiting from them in an irregular manner. * Twelfth case: Stop of a resident working in one of the health facilities for obtaining a sum of money in exchange for issuing a medical examination report and lab test for an expatriate without his attendance and attaching the reports via the electronic platform of the (Balady) system. * Thirteenth case: In cooperation with the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance, an employee working at the ministry in one of the regions was stopped for seizing a number of computer devices while working as a warehouse keeper for the ministry in the region. * Fourteenth case: Arrest of an employee working at a driving school in one of the governorates at the moment of receiving a sum of money from a resident in exchange for completing procedures for issuing a driver's license without attending the school. * Fifteenth case: Stop of the manager of a periodic inspection station and an employee at the same station in one of the regions for obtaining sums of money in exchange for completing vehicle inspection procedures in an irregular manner. The official spokesman of the authority affirmed that it continues to monitor and apprehend anyone who encroaches on public funds or exploits the job to achieve personal interest or harm the public interest, and hold them accountable even after their relationship with the job ends, as financial and administrative corruption crimes are not subject to statute of limitations, and the authority is proceeding to apply the provisions of the system against violators without leniency.
Original source: Al-Madina
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