The Financial and Administrative Corruption Cases Department in the Criminal Court in Riyadh convicted a government employee of the crime of bribery and sentenced him to three years imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to be paid to the state treasury.
According to the local reports, the accused was convicted of being a public employee and, in his job capacity, committing the crime of bribery by requesting gifts and money in exchange for violating his job duties in order to search for expatriates who have escape reports registered, so that he, in turn, cancel those reports about them for an amount of 25,000 riyals per transaction.
In its ruling, the court relied on the defendant’s confession and the conformity of the facts with the digital evidence, and the prosecution considered that his repudiation and retraction of his confessions were sent word without evidence, which called the court to be reassured of the validity of the evidence of the public prosecutor for its conformity with the facts and course of the case and the evidence supporting it.
The court confirmed that the bribery system criminalized the mere request, acceptance or taking of a bribe, whether doing an act, refraining from an act, or violating the work, and it does not affect the employee’s will not to do what he promised, as soon as he intends to trade in his job, which is indicated by the request or acceptance.
Or taking a bribe is enough to prove the crime against him according to the system, as it was proven that the accused requested to bring the identification numbers of the workers on which escape reports were issued through an intermediary and promised to cancel the report in return for money. Including criminal intent, which ends with the court proving the accusation.
