International Desk: The Saudi anti-corruption authority has arrested seven Bangladeshis, including two former officials of the country’s embassy in Najaha, Dhaka, on charges of giving work visas to Bangladeshi workers in return for bribes. Saudi authorities confirmed their arrest on Monday (March 6). News of Arab news.
It is known that the arrested have illegally taken money equivalent to 54 million Saudi riyals with visas. Several people, including seven Bangladeshis, were arrested for their involvement in the illegal visa trade. Those arrested are Abdullah Falah Mudahi Al-Shamari, the former head of the consular section of the Saudi Embassy in Dhaka, and Deputy Ambassador Khaled Nasser Ayed Al-Qahtani, the deputy head of the consular section.
Najaha authorities have interrogated these two former Saudi embassy officials. They admitted taking bribes.
They invested the money received from bribes in Saudi Arabia and outside the country. Najaha was tipped off by the country’s recruiting agencies about the Saudi embassy’s illegal visa trade.
Anyone using public office for personal gain or damage to the public interest will be brought under the law. In this case, retired embassy officials will not get an exemption, Najaha said. They said that three officials of the Saudi Embassy in Dhaka were temporarily suspended a couple of months ago for allegedly accepting bribes from recruiting agencies for issuing worker visas. The two arrested officers are among them. After leaving Dhaka, they were arrested in Saudi Arabia.
