Riyadh Police have shut down five service offices run illegally by Asian expatriates, with one of them found to have transferred SR3.4 million to his homeland. Col. Nasser Al-Qahtani, spokesman of Riyadh Police, was quoted by Al-Madina Arabic daily as saying that during a raid on the city center office an expatriate was found in the process of transferring money illegally to his country. There was also another service office run by other expatriates. “We found SR28,400 in cash with the Asian expatriates while the other expatriates had stamps of various companies, iqamas and passports,” he said. An investigation is under way.
