The Saudi Arabia is planning to move forward with new anti-corruption committee announced on Saturday. The Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced the new Anti-Corruption Committee overriding Economic Minister Adel Fakeih, he is expelled from the new probe committee with his deputy. The committee also detained 11 princesses and some of the top personals in former ministry.
The King ousted one of the country’s highest-level Royals from power, removing Prince Miteb bin Abdullah as head of the National Guard and earlier Prince Mohammed bin Nayef was ousted from the line of succession and from his post as Interior Minister, overseeing internal security.
With the two princes now sidelined, control of the kingdom’s security apparatus is now largely centralized under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is also Defence Minister.
The government said the anti-corruption committee has the right to issue arrest warrants, impose travel restrictions and freeze bank accounts. It can also trace funds, prevent the transfer of funds or the liquidation of assets and take other precautionary measures until cases are referred to the judiciary.
The committee is looking into devastating and deadly floods that overwhelmed parts of the city of Jiddah in 2009 and is investigating the Saudi government’s response to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus that has killed several hundred people in the past few years. As per the kingdom’s top council of clerics issued statement said that it is an Islamic duty to fight corruption essentially giving religious backing to the high-level arrests being reported.
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