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A responsible source said the commission had initiated a series of criminal cases, but mentioned in a statement some of the details of just 12 cases, saying they were the most prominent.
Last March, Saudi Arabia announced the arrest of 298 government officials, on charges including bribery, abuse of influence and waste of public money, and said investigators would press charges against them.
According to a previous statement from the commission, the defendants received sums amounting to about 101 million dollars. The commission revealed that among the detainees are active and retired army officers, Interior Ministry officials and judges.
Regarding the recent statement issued by the commission, an official explained that “a retired major general from the Presidency of State Security, a former adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, a retired brigadier general from the Ministry of the Interior, two businessmen and residents of Arab nationality (mediators) were suspended by the first and second foundation of an institution. And through it, he obtained a contract for the supply of electronic devices to the Ministry of the Interior for an amount of (11) million riyals, and the former paid one million six hundred thousand riyals for the third in exchange for awarding the contract.
The first obtained an amount of seven million riyals in exchange for the award of a supply contract to a company in the amount of 23 million four hundred eighty-five thousand riyals, and an agreement with another businessman to obtain a percentage of the profits of the supply contracts of his company in exchange for their award to the Presidency of State Security, and that is how the case was called. a number.
The second case concerns the suspension of the former Director General of Financial and Administrative Affairs of the Saudi Red Crescent Authority, and of a businessman, because the former acquired a property worth eight million six hundred thirty-nine thousand one hundred rials , and upon learning of the real estate need of the Crescent, he transferred ownership of the property to the second and then presented the property. Of the authority, and transferring his property in his favor for the amount of thirteen million eight hundred twenty-two thousand five hundred sixty rials.
In the fourth and fifth cases, a former ambassador and two employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were arrested “for obtaining sums of money from companies contracted with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in exchange for the award of contracts and monitoring of the disbursement of their financial contributions. by the Ministry, since the total amount they received reached 9 million two hundred thousand rials. “
In the eleventh case, the authorities detained “two officers with the rank of colonel who worked in the naval forces, a retired officer and a merchant, because the two officers obtained sums of money totaling five hundred thousand rials from the retired officer, at change of awarding contracts in the navy to a company owned by the businessman.
In 2017, the Saudi authorities arrested dozens of members of the royal family, ministers and businessmen and detained them at the “Ritz-Carlton” hotel in Riyadh, on the orders of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, accused of corruption and bribery.
