News 24 | Including a judge and a lawyer convicted of corruption. “Integrity” announces the delivery of verdicts in a number of criminal cases it has recently initiated.

The Anti-Corruption and Control Authority has announced the publication of court rulings for a number of criminal cases it has opened in the last period, after which the perpetrators were referred to the Riyadh Criminal Court. (the departments of financial and administrative corruption cases), which resulted in court decisions.

The most important of these provisions were:

First judgmentConviction of a police employee in one of the detainee trafficking regions, violation of his professional obligations as a result of mediation, forgery and concealment of fugitive suspects and statements of the mediation applicant on his part. He was sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment and fined 60,000 rials.

The second referee: The governor of one of the governorates was found guilty of corruption and embezzlement, and he was sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 25,000 rials.

The third referee: The director of the Expropriation Service of the Secretariat of one of the regions was found guilty of corruption, forgery and money laundering, and he was sentenced to 11 years in prison and a fine, and a citizen was convicted guilty of corruption and money laundering, and he was sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined 350 thousand riyals.

Fourth refereeConvict a resident working for one of the contracting companies with the Ministry of Education for offering 300,000 riyals as a bribe to one of the ministry’s employees in exchange for signing incorrect certificates of achievement that allow the resident to pay financial contributions to the company for which he works. He was sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 rials.

Fifth refereeA lawyer was convicted of bribery and money laundering and was sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 70,000 riyals, and a public prosecutor was convicted of bribery, money laundering. money and breach of professional duties by disclosing information about matters of which he became aware as a result of his work. He was sentenced to 5 years and 6 months imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 riyals, and another public prosecutor was convicted of corruption and money laundering. He was sentenced to two years and six months in prison and a fine of 15,000 rials, and an employee of the prison administration in one of the regions was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to one year and six months in prison and 15,000 rials fine.

Sixth refereeA judge was found guilty of corruption, administrative abuse and undermining the integrity of the public service. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined 300,000 riyals, and a colonel from the Department of Civil Defense in one of the regions was convicted of corruption, abuse of power for personal gain. and embezzlement. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined 600,000 riyals, and a businessman was convicted of bribery, “bribery”, participation in an abuse of power, and involvement. to embezzlement of public funds and money laundering. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison and fined 1,650 million euros. Real, terminating its business activities related to the case and preventing him from entering into contracts with ministries, government departments and public morality authorities to secure their purchases and implement their projects and works, and condemning a man cases for corruption “corruption” and participation in administrative abuses, and he was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment and a fine of 400,000 riyals, he was prevented from concluding contracts with government ministries , government departments and bodies with legal personality to obtain a buyer The legal representative of the second businessman was convicted of bribery and participation in administrative abuses, and he was sentenced to 4 years in prison and a fine of 300,000 riyals, and a citizen was found guilty of complicity in undermining the integrity of the public service and was sentenced to 6 months’ imprisonment. to tax the amount of corruption amounting to 42 thousand riyals and the proceeds of the crime of money laundering amounting to 700 thousand riyals.

Seventh decisionSentenced to 4 years in prison, a fine, an officer with the rank of major exercising the function of housing manager for one of the real estate complexes affiliated with the Ministry of the Interior was sentenced for having indirectly solicited and received a gift and abused his power. of 2,000 riyals and confiscation of 8,402 riyals.

Eighth judgment: An employee working at the Ministry of Education was convicted of corruption, and she was sentenced to two years and 6 months in prison and a fine of 25,000 rials was paid.

The authority appreciates the efforts of all government agencies in combating financial and administrative corruption, and putting in place policies and procedures that improve performance efficiency and speed of completion and block opportunities for corruption .