Al-Marsad Newspaper: An official source in the Control and Anti-Corruption Authority stated that the authority has initiated a number of criminal cases during the last period, and the legal procedures once morest them are being completed.
The main issues were as follows:
First issue: Suspension of a former notary public in one of the governorates (currently an employee of the General Court); For having amended several instruments in an irregular manner in return for obtaining an amount of (360,000) three hundred and sixty thousand riyals from the owner of the scheme, neglecting the records and records, not sequencing and numbering them, and enabling one of the control clerks to control what he wanted of sales and agencies, and emptying a grant to a citizen without his presence And the presence of suspicious money transfers to his bank account, amounting to (286,000) two hundred and eighty-six thousand riyals.
The second issue: stop a businessman; For presenting an amount of (500,000) five hundred thousand riyals through another businessman (a mediator arrested in another case) to hand it over to a former judge (arrested in another case); to issue an endowment deed completed for the properties of the first’s father in an irregular manner.
Third issue: The arrest of the deputy head of the Center and the Chairman of the Infringement Committee – belonging to the emirate of one of the regions – and two citizens; In return for overlooking these events, and the second, by virtue of the nature of his work as Chairman of the Infringement Committee, provided citizens with whom he had a relationship with information regarding the times of secret removal, and information regarding the complaints submitted once morest them, and obtained from one of the beneficiaries an amount of (100,000) one hundred thousand riyals in return.
Fourth case: Suspending a retired employee for having, during his tenure as director of the land administration in the Municipality of one of the regions, sold lands (sublime grants) belonging to citizens without their knowledge, using forged agencies, tampering with a planned distribution, and illegally handing over 55 lands to citizens.
Fifth issue: The arrest in flagrante delicto of a soldier – working in the Ministry of Defense in one of the governorates – for having requested an amount of (40,000) forty thousand riyals from a citizen in exchange for giving him government medicines not intended for sale, and the appearance of other parties to the case, namely: a citizen (a mediator), an employee and a pharmacist working in a government hospital in one of the governorates They were arrested in flagrante delicto while receiving an amount of (68,000) sixty-eight thousand riyals in exchange for government medicines not intended for sale.
Sixth case: Arresting an expatriate – who was previously deported to his country -; For having paid an amount of (40,000) forty thousand riyals to a broker – working in an airline reservation office in his country – and coordinating with an airport employee in exchange for enabling him to enter through an airport into the Kingdom.
Seventh case: The arrest in flagrante delicto of a doctor – working in a government hospital in one of the regions – the moment he received the sum of (10,000) ten thousand riyals; In exchange for an appointment for an operation for one of the reviews.
Eighth case: In cooperation with the Ministry of Interior, a citizen was arrested; For offering an amount of (50,000) fifty thousand riyals to a security man – at the Anti-Narcotics Department in one of the regions – in exchange for his release following he was arrested on charges of drug abuse.
The ninth case: The arrest in flagrante delicto of two residents while they were handing over an amount of (11,000) eleven thousand riyals to a resident (a mediator); To cancel an escape report for an irregular resident.
Tenth case: Suspension of the Director of Projects Department at the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture in one of the governorates; Because he employed his father and some of his relatives in one of the contracting offices with the ministry without his father starting to work, and he benefited from his father’s salary of (3000) three thousand riyals for the duration of the contract, by depositing it in the bank account belonging to him.
Eleventh case: In cooperation with the Ministry of Interior, a security man was arrested in flagrante delicto – at the Criminal Investigation and Research Department in one of the regions – for receiving an amount of (35,000) thirty-five thousand riyals in return for completing the procedures for illegally treating citizenship.
Twelfth issue: The arrest in flagrante delicto of an employee – in the health affairs in one of the governorates -; For stealing medicines from the health affairs warehouse, storing them and trading them.
Thirteenth case: The arrest in flagrante delicto of a resident – working for one of the companies contracting with the National Water Company in one of the regions – while receiving an amount of (5,000) five thousand riyals; In exchange for sewage connection to a citizen’s home.
The fourteenth issue: Suspension of (4) citizens, for two of them paid sums of money to others in exchange for changing their health status to vaccinated without taking the Corona vaccine.
Fifteenth case: In cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, an employee – working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – was arrested; For approving transactions in an irregular manner in exchange for sums of money.
The authority confirms that it continues to monitor and control anyone who infringes on public money or exploits the position to achieve his personal interest, or to harm the public interest, and to hold him accountable even following the end of his relationship with the job, because crimes of financial and administrative corruption do not fall within the statute of limitations, and that the authority continues to implement what the system requires. The right of transgressors without complacency.
