Saudi: Nazaha arrests 76 employees on corruption charges
Saudi Arabia’s Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) has announced the arrest of seventy-six people accused of bribery, forgery and money laundering.
According to a report on Sunday August 28, 2020, the arrest was made following the 3,321 inspection rounds that the authority carried out during the month of Muharram.
“The monitoring rounds resulted in arresting the accused citizens and residents including employees in 5 ministries, which are, the Ministries of Interior, Health, Justice, Education, Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing,” the report says.
It stated that 76 people were arrested and 195 were investigated for several crimes, noting that some of the detainees were released on bail.
During the monitoring rounds, Nazaha said that the most prominent financial and administrative corruption crimes that it monitored are bribery, abuse of power, forgery, and money laundering.
In order to protect and preserve public money, Nazaha therefore urged everyone to cooperate with it in the event that they detect any violation or suspicion of financial or administrative corruption by reporting.
