On Sunday, the Saudi prosecutor announced the arrest of a gang that committed financial fraud, led by a citizen and residents who collaborated with him.
An official prosecutor source told the Saudi news agency,Was“The Money Prosecution has launched an investigation with a criminal group consisting of one citizen and six residents of Asian nationality, who have committed the crime of financial fraud.”
He explained that the gang “communicated with the victims and deluded them that they were representatives of financial organizations, then seized confidential data, entered bank accounts and stole money from them.”
The investigation procedures revealed that “the citizen has extracted a commercial record in the telecommunications business and allowed expatriates to extract sims with identification numbers for people without their knowledge”.
The source added that “they had more than 2,000 fingerprints of people who have been archived and put on documents, to facilitate their exploitation and pass them on the identity verification device”.
He stressed that “the aforementioned people have been arrested because the charges against them justify the arrest”.
He stressed: “Judicial protection of individuals from all forms of fraud (…) in accordance with the system of anti-financial fraud and breach of trust”.
He stressed that “the Prosecutor’s Office will not hesitate to refer the authors to the competent court to ask for the penalties provided for in this regard”.
The source did not disclose the extent of the looted funds, nor did it provide further details on the gang members or their workplace, or the victims.
