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The Saudi Anti-Corruption and Control Authority on Thursday announced the suspension of a former commissioner-minister, officers and officials involved in corruption cases it initiated in the last period .
An official source from the Control and Anti-Corruption Authority said that the authority had initiated a number of criminal proceedings over the past period and that legal proceedings against its parties were nearing completion.
The most important cases are:
– The first case: in cooperation with the Presidency of State Security, a retired major general of the Presidency of State Security, a former adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, a brigadier general on retirement from the interior ministry, two businessmen and residents of Arab nationality (mediators) were suspended. The first and the second created an institution and obtained through it a contract to supply electronic devices to the Ministry of the Interior in the amount of eleven million riyals, and the first paid an amount of one million six hundred thousand riyals to the third in exchange for the award of the contract. The first received an amount of seven million riyals in exchange for the award of a supply contract to a company in the amount of twenty-three million four hundred and eighty-five thousand riyals, and an agreement with a another businessman to get a percentage of the profits from the supply contracts for his company in exchange for being awarded the presidency of state security.
– The second case: the suspension of the former director general of financial and administrative affairs of the Saudi Red Crescent and of a businessman; Because the former bought a property worth eight million six hundred and thirty-nine thousand one hundred and hundred riyals, and when he knew that the Red Crescent Authority needed real estate, he transferred the property of the property to the second, then submitted the property to the Authority and transferred its property in its favor for an amount of thirteen million eight hundred and twenty-two thousand five hundred and sixty riyals.
– The third case: in cooperation with the General Customs Authority, a citizen and (3) residents were arrested when they handed over an amount of three million six hundred thousand riyals to a customs clearance office. Facilitate the entry of two containers (tobacco products) without paying the royalties due amounting to ten million four hundred and sixty-five thousand one hundred and seventy-seven riyals.
Case 4: In cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a minister plenipotentiary who had previously worked as an ambassador in an African country was arrested. Because it issued (203) visas irregularly in exchange for the amount of three thousand riyals for each visa, and the total amount obtained in one year was six hundred and nine thousand riyals.
Case n ° 5: suspension of a former ambassador and two employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Because they obtained sums of money from contracting companies with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in exchange for awarding contracts and monitoring the disbursement of their financial contributions from the Ministry, the total amount they obtained reaching nine million two hundred thousand riyals.
– The sixth case: in cooperation with the General Authority for Zakat and Revenue, an employee of the Authority and an employee of the Execution Court were suspended. Because the first deleted two hundred and twenty-one thousand two hundred and forty-three riyals registered entries on a businessman, scheduling entries in the amount of two hundred and eleven thousand riyals irregularly, and the first paid an amount of fifty thousand riyals to the second in exchange for the cancellation of an execution order against him.
Seventh case: suspension of an employee of a university; For writing checks on the university bank account in the amount of two million six hundred thousand riyals and depositing them in his bank account irregularly.
The eighth question: the suspension of a former mayor in a governorate; Because he headed the Subsidies Committee, of which he was chairman, to allocate (14) land to his children and relatives in separate sites in this governorate.
The ninth case: the arrest of a university employee; To obtain an amount of one hundred and eighty thousand riyals in several installments from one of the operating companies of the university, in exchange for information to the company, to facilitate the obtaining of contracts work and facilitate the exchange of extracts for the company.
– The tenth case: in cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior, two non-commissioned officers were arrested, one at the General Directorate of Passports, and the other at the General Directorate of Narcotics Control in one of the regions when the first received the sum of seventy-five thousand riyals, in exchange for their change of testimony in one of the cases pending before the court.
– The eleventh case: the arrest of two colonel officers working in the navy, a retired officer and a businessman; Because the two officers obtained from the retired officer sums totaling five hundred thousand riyals, in exchange for awarding naval contracts to a company owned by the businessman.
– The twelfth case: in cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior and general accounts, a former secretary general of the National Drug Control Commission has been suspended. To obtain an amount of eight hundred and five hundred and twenty riyals, in return for the award of a contract for the holding of exhibitions on a company with the General Directorate of Narcotics Control.
The authority says it is implementing what the system stipulates the right of uncompromising transgressors, and that it continues to monitor and control anyone who encroaches on public money, or exploits labor to achieve in his personal interest, or to harm the public interest and hold him accountable even after his relationship with work has ended. The fact that financial and administrative corruption offenses are not subject to prescription.
The committee drew attention to the fact that article (16) of the anti-corruption law, insofar as it stipulates that the briber or the mediator is exempted from the initial and accessory penalty if he informs the authorities of the crime before its discovery.
The authority expressed gratitude for the efforts of government agencies in combating financial and administrative corruption, as well as for developing policies and procedures that improve performance efficiency and timeliness and blocking opportunities for corruption, and welcomes the cooperation of these bodies with them, and the media in what is published in order to protect integrity, realize the principle of transparency and fight corruption, and to thank citizens. And residents for their cooperation in reporting through the authority’s available channels, including the telephone number (980), of any practice involving financial or administrative corruption that undermines the state’s efforts to support and improve the comprehensive development process in light of the Kingdom’s 2030 vision. The commission would also like to thank the guardian of the two holy mosques, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and His Royal Highness Prince Muhammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense – may God preserve them – for the unlimited support that the commission has received in the performance of its functions and in the exercise of its functions of combating financial and administrative corruption in all its forms and levels.
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