A group of men attacked a Saudi police officer who refused to take a bribe when he stopped them for breaking the lockdown.
The Control and Anti-corruption Authority announced over the weekend that a group of men were arrested for assault and damaging a police vehicle. They were stopped for breaking the nightly restriction in the kingdom and then tried to pay officers to let them go, it said.
The kingdom has brought in curfews to stem the rising number of coronavirus cases, currently at 4,033 infections and 52 deaths.
The bureau said the men would be referred for criminal prosecution and it recommended the harshest sentences as it claimed they had “disregarded the efforts made by official authorities to combat this pandemic and assaulted security officers who dedicate themselves to serving the country and its people”.
Separately, the bureau said a judge and a colonel in the military were being investigated after reports they took money to influence verdicts.
The anti-corruption authority said that the judge and the colonel, who are brothers, took bribes to pass favourable verdicts and were also involved in money laundering, misuse of public office and appropriating public funds. A lawyer and a businessman were also involved in the case, the body reported. All have confessed during questioning and will now face trial.
The bureau said that the actions of the judge were not representative of the judicial system.
