Abu Dhabi: Saudi Arabia has fired several senior tourism project officials, adding historic megaprojects from northwest Al Ula and the Red Sea suspected of corruption, Saudi news firm SPA reported Friday, with a royal decree.
The investigation to officials had facilitated the usurpation of land belonging to these projects, SPA reported.
Ignored officials include the governors of Amlaj and Al Wajh, coastal officials 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 under investigation through the NAZAHA anti-corruption authority, in Arabic for integrity, suspected of facilitating the usurpation of more than 5,000 plots of land in the mega-designation of the Red Sea and dozens of plots in the historic village of Al Ula and Al Souda. allocation in the southwest city of Abha.
Dozens of the kingdom’s economic and political elites were arrested in 2017 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, an anti-corruption offensive that has disrupted some foreign investors.
The royal court said last year that it would end the crusade after 15 months, but the government later said it would begin addressing the bribery of government employees.
The royal decree stipulated the following:
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