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Cairo: Saudi Arabia has convicted a number of top security officers and a prince in several corruption cases related to forgery, bribery, waste of public money and influence peddling, according to a state anti-graft watchdog, the latest in a clampdown on corruption in the country.
Rulings were recently passed by the circuits of financial and administrative corruption at a court in Riyadh after the defendants were convicted in the different cases, an official source at the Saudi Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority said.
A prominent case involved a prince, who was an employee at the Ministry of Municipal and Village Affairs, a cadet at a military college affiliated to the Defence Ministry, and an Arab expatriate. The royal and the cadet were found guilty of using forged education qualifications to get government jobs while the expatriate acted as a mediator in helping them obtain the certificates, the source said.