DAMMAM — The Ministry of Commerce and Investment has named and shamed a Dammam-based expatriate who was convicted of tasattur (commercial concealment).

A court found the Asian man guilty of trading in international telecom cards on his own through three bank accounts belonging to a commercial establishment in Dammam.

The results of the investigations revealed that the defendant had been conducting financial transactions valued at SR260,000 per month by buying and selling 4,500 telecom cards.

The funds deposited and drawn in the bank accounts reached more than SR3 million in one year. The expat paid the woman owner of the establishment SR1,500 each month.

The sentence issued by the criminal court in Dammam included a fine of SR150,000 and deportation of the expat from the country after the execution of the sentence. The man will not to be allowed to come back for work in the Kingdom. The court also ordered defamation of the expatriate by publishing the ruling against him in a local newspaper at his expense. — SG