Saudi Arabia’s Control and Anti-Corruption Authority has announced it has launched a Coronavirus case. The financial and administrative corruption case involves two senior General Directorate of Health Affairs employees with responsibility for the Riyadh region. Action is also being taken against a hotel owner and six other individuals in the same case. They are all charged with failing to provide adequate housing for citizens who have been repatriated during their isolation in the Kingdom. They are accused of asking hotels for commission in return for signing a contract with the Health Ministry. This is alleged to have led to inflated prices for the appropriate services being charged. It is alleged a senior Tourism Ministry official provided inflated prices to the Health Ministry to provide housing for citizens who have been repatriated during their isolation in the Kingdom. In that case, the official was found to have overspent public money and breached their employment duties. The Authority has said violations by employees are individual actions and therefore their employer is not culpable. Histoire complète
