The Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority announced on Twitter the initiation of several criminal cases alongside the hashtag #country_with_no_corruption
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Corruption: Saudi’s King Abdulaziz University President removed for embezzlement, money laundering
The president had served in the position since 2016
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Airbus unit pleads guilty to corruption over Saudi contracts
Serious Fraud Office charged GPT Special Project Management with corruption between January 2007 and December 2012 last year
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French ex-PM Balladur to stand trial over ‘arms deal kickbacks’
Balladur and former defence minister Francois Leotard were charged in 2017 over the sale of submarines to Pakistan and frigates to Saudi Arabia
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Platini released by French police in 2022 World Cup probe
The French football legend was being held by French anti-corruption police
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Pakistan ex-president Zardari arrested over graft charges
Zardari, widely known in Pakistan as “Mr Ten Percent”, is alleged to have laundered vast sums of money through suspect bank accounts and companies
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Saudi suspends 126 local government workers on corruption charges
King Salman established specialised anti-corruption units in the public prosecutor’s office last year
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Saudi-Ethiopian billionaire Mohammed Al Amoudi released
Several other prominent detainees were released over the past few weeks, including Amr Al-Dabbagh
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UAE strengthens anti-corruption laws
The revised penal code also applies outside the UAE’s borders
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Saudi billionaire prince Al-Waleed’s brother freed from detention
Prince Khalid bin Talal was detained for 11 months for criticising the biggest crackdown on the kingdom’s elite last November that saw dozens of princes, officials and tycoons detained at Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton hotel
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Sanofi to pay $25m in US over Middle East bribery probe
The probe covered Sanofi and its affiliates in Kazakhstan, Jordan, Lebanon, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Yemen, Oman and the United Arab Emirates for activities between 2006 and 2015.