Pak Sahafat – According to the research of an American website, corruption continues systematically in Saudi Arabia and the young Saudi crown prince uses this self-made problem to eliminate critics and opponents of the “Al Saud” regime under the pretext of fighting it.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency’s report on Monday, after “Mohammed bin Salman” removed his cousin from the position of crown prince in 2017, “Mohammed bin Nayef” and took power, with the claim of reforms, he started a series of measures, including the definition of economic, social and promised to fight against the systematic corruption that is rooted in the economic, political and judicial pillars of this country.
Now, seven years after Bin Salman’s so-called reform measures, an international investigation has revealed that corruption and nepotism, which have been cited as obstacles to economic reform in Saudi Arabia, have not only not disappeared, but have strengthened.
This research published by the American website “Geopolitical Futures”, shows that the bureaucracy in Saudi Arabia has grown and expanded irrationally due to nepotism.
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According to the “Geopolitical Futures”, during this period, the Saudi government implemented development projects, including the development of educational centers, hospitals, roads and bridges, many of which were useless and caused the bureaucracy to grow in this country, and it provided a ground for government officials to enter the private labor market by establishing companies and benefit from their connections with prominent princes to win contracts and tenders.
According to this research, corruption remains a serious problem in Saudi Arabia because it is rooted in the rigid bureaucratic structure of Al Saud, thus it has taken an institutional form.
In 2017, when bin Salman realized that more than he thought, those close to him would oppose his reign, he took action against many of them under the pretext of corruption and embezzlement.
The idea of ​​arresting the princes who were unwilling to support him was to warn them of the consequences of opposing his reign, and to launch an anti-corruption campaign was nothing more than the young crown prince settling scores with the opposition, because at the same time, the corruption of some princes loyal to him was covered up, and the arrest of these people was carried out on the order of Bin Salman in a selective manner with the aim of suppressing them.
In recent days, the official news agency of Saudi Arabia (WAS) announced the arrest of several Saudi diplomats on charges of cooperation with four Bangladeshi citizens who were doing business in this country with illegal visas and added: After their arrest, these four people admitted in their confessions that they had conspired with the employees of the Saudi embassy in their country to issue illegal visas.
After these confessions, the head of the consular department of the Saudi Embassy in Bangladesh, “Abdullah Fallah Madhaghi Al-Shammari”, the former deputy ambassador, and “Khaled Nasser Ayez Al-Qahtani,” the deputy of the consular department of the Riyadh Embassy in Bangladesh, were arrested on charges of collaborating with them.
According to this report; Saudi authorities claimed that the arrested diplomats, when they were working at the Riyadh embassy, ​​received 54 million Rials from people living in this country or people outside of Saudi Arabia, to help them issue work visas in this country.
Also, the media reported that the public prosecutor of Saudi Arabia has demanded the execution of 10 former judges on the charge of “high treason” at the request of “Mohammed bin Salman”.
“Abdullah Alaoud,” director of the Persian Gulf in the “Democracy for the Arab World” organization, said: The horrific allegations leveled against these judges, many of whom have handed down harsh sentences against Saudi activists at the behest of the crown prince, show that no one in Saudi Arabia is safe.
Knowledgeable sources informed this human rights organization that since the arrest of these judges on April 11, 2022, the Saudi government has denied them access to legal advice, and the arrest and trial of these judges lacks the support of basic legal procedures.
Some news sources have announced the names of these judges as follows: “Abdullah bin Khalid al-Haidaan”, “Abd al-Aziz bin Madawi al-Jaber”, “Jandab al-Mufarah”, “Abd al-Aziz bin Fahd al-Dawood”, “Talal al-Hamidan”, “Fahd al-Saghir”, “Khalid bin Awaid al-Qahtani”, “Nasser” Bin Saud al-Harbi”, “Muhammad al-Omari” and “Muhammad bin Mosfar al-Ghamdi”.