Saudi Arabia: 226 officials arrested for alleged corruption

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Saudi Arabia says it has arrested 226 people involved in 158 cases of corruption including money laundering, bribery and fraud within country’s Ministry of Defence totalling some $325 million.

Criminal investigations have been launched against those arrested, according to an official source at the authority. Cases also included employees of the Ministries of Finance, Health and Education

According to Saudi Agency Report it has been proven that “a number of officers and civil servants working at the Ministry of Defence, together with others, have been involved in suspicious financial dealings, committing bribery crimes, exploiting office influence and fraud, squandering public money and laundering money, to achieve illicit financial gains amounting to 1,229,400,000 Saudi riyals,” around $325 million.

De-facto ruler of the kingdom, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, known popularly as MBS, came into office with a pledge to crackdown on corruption. Within months of assuming office in 2017 following what many saw as a soft-coup against former Crown Prince Muhammed Bin Nayef, MBS authorised the detention of hundreds of princes, ministers and businessmen in the luxurious Ritz-Carlton and demanded millions of dollars in payment in exchange for their freedom.

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