CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia fired others guilty of tourism projects, and added megaprojects from al-Ula’s historic northwest and the Red Sea on suspicion of corruption, official SPA news firm reported on Friday, with a royal decree. .
The investigation is aimed at officials who facilitated the invasion of land belonging to these projects, SPA reported.
Ignored officials include the governors of Umluj and Al Wajh, coastal in the north of the kingdom, the head of border security and officials of the Ministry of the Interior and other government entities.
They are being investigated through an anti-corruption authority, suspected of having facilitated the usurpation of more than 5,000 plots of land in the Mega-Assignment of the Red Sea and dozens of plots in the historic village of Al Ula and the cession of Al Souda in the southwestern city of Abha.
Dozens of members of the kingdom’s economic and political elite were arrested in 2017 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh as a result of an anti-corruption offensive that has affected some foreign investors.
The royal court said last year that it was finishing the crusade after 15 months, but the government later said it would begin to take on corruption of government employees.
Reporting through Samar Hassan; Written through Marwa Rashad; Editing by Tom Hogue and William Mallard
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