The official spokesman of the Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority stated that the authority has initiated a number of criminal cases during the past period, and legal procedures are being completed against the perpetrators. The most prominent cases are as follows:

Case One:

A citizen (businessman) was detained 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) imports, in exchange for not paying the due government customs fees on that shipment amounting to (14,000,000) fourteen million riyals.

Case Two:

A Ministry of Health employee in one of the regions was detained for receiving an amount of (900,000) nine hundred thousand riyals in installments in exchange for awarding several projects to a commercial entity in an irregular manner.

Case Three:

In cooperation with the Ministry of Energy, a resident working on one of the ministry's projects was arrested at the moment of receiving an amount of (200,000) two hundred thousand riyals in exchange for not issuing fines and penalties against a commercial entity amounting to (1,500,000) one million five hundred thousand riyals.

Case Four:

A resident working for an engineering consulting office and appointed as an expert by the commercial court in a commercial dispute case was arrested 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 party to the dispute in an irregular manner.

Case Five:

In cooperation with the Ministry of Interior, a former military officer of the General Directorate of Passports was detained for obtaining financial amounts totaling (60,500) sixty thousand five hundred riyals, in exchange for finalizing procedures for transactions related to expatriates in an irregular manner.

Case Six:

An employee working for the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority in one of the regions was arrested 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.

Case Seven:

Two employees working for the municipality of one of the provinces were detained for receiving an amount of (40,000) forty thousand riyals in exchange for finalizing procedures for transactions in an irregular manner.

Case Eight:

An employee working for the secretariat of one of the regions was arrested 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 finalizing a transaction procedure in the secretariat in an irregular manner.

Case Nine:

An employee working for the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development in one of the regions was arrested at the moment of receiving an amount of (10,000) ten thousand riyals, in exchange for not issuing penalties against a commercial entity during his field inspections.

Case Ten:

An employee working for the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development in one of the provinces, and a citizen, were detained for the former receiving an amount of (2,500) two thousand five hundred riyals from the latter in exchange for handing him an incorrect letter addressed to the General Directorate of Passports to cancel an absence report on a resident with the aim of transferring his sponsorship to the latter.

Case Eleven:

Four employees working for the municipality of one of the provinces were detained for employing a number of citizens related to them in an irregular manner, and disbursing amounts as salaries to a number of residents working in the municipality and benefiting from them in an irregular manner.

Case Twelve:

A resident working in a health facility was detained for receiving a financial amount in exchange for issuing a medical examination report and lab test for an expatriate without his presence and attaching the reports via the electronic platform of the (Balady) system.

Case Thirteen:

In cooperation with the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance, an employee working for the ministry in one of the regions was detained for seizing a number of computers while working as a warehouse custodian of the ministry in the region.

Case Fourteen:

An employee working at a driving school in one of the provinces was arrested at the moment of receiving a financial amount from a resident in exchange for completing procedures for issuing a driver's license without attending the school.

Case Fifteen:

The manager of a periodic inspection station and an employee at the same station in one of the regions were detained for receiving financial amounts in exchange for finalizing 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 their position to achieve personal interest or harm the public interest, and hold them accountable even after the end of their employment relationship, as financial and administrative corruption crimes are not subject to statute of limitations, and that the authority is proceeding to implement the provisions of the law against violators without leniency.