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Articles of the author Abdulrahman Al Ali
Ex-mayor denies bribe allegation
Saudi Gazette JEDDAH – An ex-mayor facing corruption charges denied in court Monday that he had received SR5 million in bribe from a co-defendant for approving unauthorized construction in a flood path. The ex-mayor and three others accused in (...)

26 - 06 - 2012
Purse snatchers arrested inside shopping mall
Saudi Gazette JEDDAH – Two women were arrested inside a shopping mall here Thursday after they attempted to steal the purse of a female shopper. The women were caught after the victim's husband notified the mall security. The victim said she noticed (...)

23 - 06 - 2012
Patrol car damaged in Al-Awamiyah attack
A security patrol, which was carrying out a task on a street in the Eastern Province town of Awamiyah, was fired upon early Sunday morning. The patrol vehicle and a civilian's car were damaged in the machine-gun fire by an unidentified gunman at (...)

11 - 06 - 2012
Six caught for Jeddah robbery
Security patrols in Jeddah smashed a six-member gang which impersonated security personnel and robbed the representative of a commercial establishment. The gang members were caught after police received a complaint from a Yemeni expatriate, who (...)

11 - 06 - 2012
Jeddah police arrest gang targeting bank customers
Jeddah police's criminal investigation section has nabbed an African gang that targeted customers leaving banks with large quantities of cash. The four-member gang pulled off dozens of similar thefts in districts all over Jeddah. Police apprehended (...)

10 - 06 - 2012
36 wanted criminals netted in police raids
Police here raided several crime dens over the past week and nabbed 36 people wanted for committing various offenses, said 1st Lt. Nawaf Al-Booq, acting spokesman for Jeddah police. Also arrested were 1,688 undocumented workers, 244 women and 204 (...)

09 - 06 - 2012
Civil Defense contains major industrial fire in south Jeddah
Ten Civil Defense firefighting units were called in to contain a huge fire that broke out at a wood factory in the industrial area of south Jeddah Thursday. Under the direct supervision of Brig. Gen. Abdullah Jadawee, the firefighting teams (...)

09 - 06 - 2012
Overtime for judges to end cases backlog
The Ministry of Justice has offered overtime to a number of court judges and employees in different parts of the Kingdom to work in evening sessions. The move is aimed at ending the backlog of criminal and civil status cases, according to comments (...)

06 - 06 - 2012
Passports Dept raids shelters for runaway maids, brothels
Jeddah Passports Department forces raided several houses in Al-Safa District which were being used as shelters for runaway housemaids while others as brothels. Several undocumented workers selling rotten fruits and vegetables were also arrested in (...)

06 - 06 - 2012
Bribery caseadjourned until June 18
The Administrative Court on Sunday adjourned a bribery case in which nine individuals are accused of accepting bribes and abuse of power. The judge postponed the case involving government officials, real estate developers and a gas station owner (...)

04 - 06 - 2012
Charred body of Asian woman found after fire
Jeddah police are investigating the death of an Asian woman whose charred body was discovered in the room of a two-story building that caught on fire. Jeddah Civil Defense dispatched firefighters to the building located in Al-Aziziya (...)

04 - 06 - 2012
Police raid liquor den
Special forces police teams raided a house in east Jeddah that was being used as a factory to make liquor. The raid was conducted based on information received by police that two Asians were selling liquor in the Kilo 4 area. The house was put (...)

02 - 06 - 2012
3 ex-chiefs of soccer club acquitted in bribery case
A court on Wednesday acquitted three former presidents of a soccer club in the city of charges related to bribery and illegally obtaining aerial photographs of public land. Three government employees, one of them an honorary member of the soccer (...)

31 - 05 - 2012
Court to rule today on 4 flood cases
The Administrative Court of the Bureau of Grievances will hand down verdicts in four Jeddah flood cases on Wednesday. The persons involved in these cases, some of whom held high positions in government agencies, appeared before the same court in (...)

30 - 05 - 2012
Five get jail terms, fines for corruption
The Board of Grievances on Sunday looked into bribery charges against six public- and private-sector employees. The presiding judge found five of the employees guilty of the charges while the sixth was acquitted. Five of the defendants were present (...)

28 - 05 - 2012
City official retracts bribery confession
A senior Jeddah Mayoralty official Sunday retracted a confession of taking bribe from a businessman to expedite the process of paying his financial dues owed by the mayoralty. Appearing in the Board of Grievances here the businessman, whose company (...)

28 - 05 - 2012
Restaurant roof collapse in Jeddah injures six
Six people enjoying their meals were trapped and injured inside a restaurant at Al-Jamia District here Monday as the roof of the eatery collapsed, sending down tons of debris on them. Civil Defense teams rushed to the scene equipped with sonar (...)

22 - 05 - 2012
Jeddah flood case trial adjourned
The trial of nine individuals, some of them former Jeddah Mayoralty officials involved in the Jeddah flood case, was adjourned Monday by the Administrative Court in the Board of Grievances for further examination of evidence. The presiding judge (...)

22 - 05 - 2012
Documents nail bribery suspect
One of the six suspects being tried for bribery and misuse of aerial photographs of a plot of land in Dhahban for illegal deals was confronted with incriminating documents by the Chairman of the Judicial Circuit at the Board of Grievances here (...)

21 - 05 - 2012
Criminal uses toy pistol to rob expats
year-old Saudi man has been arrested for robbing mostly expatriate workers with a plastic toy gun and impersonating a police officer. He was nabbed after his last victim, an Indonesian national, reported him to the police. The Indonesian victim (...)

04 - 05 - 2012
Al-Jizawee attests his confession in court
Jizawee, who appeared in the General Court Wednesday, attested his confession made to the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution (BIP) on the 21,380 Xanax tablets found in his possession. The BIP recorded Al-Jizawee's confession on smuggling the (...)

03 - 05 - 2012
Billions lost in stalled projects
Every year, the government approves hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of new development projects worth billions of riyals destined for rural areas. The hopes of locals, however, are soon dashed as companies sub-contract out the work and then what (...)

14 - 11 - 2008
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