Saudi Gazette report

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia's Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) announced the arrest of 60 defendants involved in criminal and administrative crimes, most notably forgery and money laundering.

Nazaha's arrest of the defendants came after it initiated a number of cases during the previous Hijri month, Rabi' Al-Awal.

It said that it carried out 3,426 monitoring rounds, during which it investigated 148 people and arrested 60 of them. Nazaha noted that some of them were released on bail.

Nazaha revealed the most prominent crimes for which it arrested the accused, noting that the accused were involved in bribery, money laundering, abuse of power, and forgery.

It said that the investigations included employees of the ministries of defense, interior, health, municipal and rural affairs and housing.