RIYADH — An official source in the Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) stated that the Authority initiated a number of criminal cases recently, and legal procedures against the accused are under way. Most prominent of which were as follow: The first case: The arrest of two employees in a municipality of one of the regions and a bank employee, as the employees of the municipality obtained an amount of (SR5,174,000) five million one hundred seventy four thousand riyals, in addition to using bank accounts of a company which belongs to the bank employee in transferring those sums, in exchange for awarding a project of (SR60,000,000) Sixty million riyals to a certain company. The second case: The arrest of (3) employees at a university (Director of Operation and Maintenance Department, Director of Mechanical Systems Department, and a Warehouse Keeper), a manager of a bank branch, and a businessman. The aforementioned university employees obtained an amount of (SR4,404,995) four million four hundred four thousand nine hundred and ninety five riyals, in return for several contract awarding with a total value of (SR13,844,579) thirteen million eight hundred and forty four thousand five hundred seventy nine riyals for the benefit of two enterprises that are owned by the businessman and the Director of Mechanical Systems Department (registered in the name of his wife); the bank manager enabled the Director of Operation and Maintenance Department to deposit an amount of (SR1,000,000) one million riyals in cash without verifying the sources of the funds, and then used those sums to purchase real estate in the names of their relatives in order to hide the source. The third case: The arrest of a former employee at a university (Director of the Safety Department and Head of the Technical Committee for Projects Follow-up), a businessman and a resident engineer, where the first person obtained an amount of (SR240,000) two hundred and forty thousand riyals from the second person in exchange for overlooking a number of violations with the complicity of the third person in three projects that was worth an amount of (SR7,696,185) seven million six hundred and ninety six thousand one hundred and eighty five riyals and were executed by an enterprise owned by the second. The fourth case: In cooperation with the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA), a former employee in the Contracts and Procurement Department at one of the international airports and a businessman were arrested, as the former enabled his relative (the second person) to obtain (218) direct purchase orders in an unlawful manner. The fifth case: A former employee of the Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones and a businessman were arrested, as the first person got an amount of (SR225,750) two hundred twenty five thousand seven hundred and fifty riyals from the second person in exchange for a testimonial statement from the first person"s workplace which stated there are no efficient companies other than the company (which is owned by the second) in its field, and that in effect enabled the company to obtain projects in that Authority. The sixth case: An employee of the General Authority of Customs and an employee, who works as a customs broker, were arrested, as the first obtained an amount of (SR574,300) five hundred seventy four thousand and three hundred riyals, in exchange for clearing containers that contain tobacco, using some of his relatives bank accounts. The seventh case: In cooperation with the Ministry of Interior, (4) non-commissioned officers working at the General Directorate of Traffic in one of the regions were arrested for pulling over a resident and enabling their colleague (a retired non-commissioned officer) to search his vehicle and steal an amount of (200,000) two hundred thousand riyals from the vehicle. The eighth case: in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior, a retired non-commissioned officer from a police department of one of the regions was arrested for taking an amount of (SR219,750) two hundred and nineteen thousand seven hundred and fifty riyals as well as gold ingots while he was working as a warehouse keeper and traded it in selling and buying cars and deposited the amount and profits in a bank account that belongs to a car dealership, which is owned by one of his relatives, then transferring those sums to his bank account in order to hide its source. The ninth case: In cooperation with the Ministry of Interior, a citizen was arrested for offering an amount of (SR200,000) two hundred thousand riyals to the arrest squad of the General Directorate of Narcotics Control during his arrest for possession of narcotics. The tenth case: An officer with the rank of colonel and a non-commissioned officer from the General Directorate of Passports, in one of the regions, were arrested, as the second registered a fake entry of a relative of the first into the Kingdom, upon his request. The Authority affirms that it will continue to pursue anyone who exploits the public office to achieve personal gain or harm public interest in any way possible, and that the accountability extends far beyond the retirement of any individual, as the crimes of financial and administrative corruption have no statute of limitations, and that it will apply what the rule of law against violators with zero tolerance.