Three Jeddah Islamic Port (JIP) officials were sentenced to jail terms and fines for falsely recording that malfunctioning containers at the port were in good working order. They had done so to benefit a company that leased these containers. The Third Circuit of the Jeddah Administrative Court, upholding the verdicts of previous courts, found the first defendant guilty of falsifying records and wasting public money, and sentenced him to one year in jail and a fine of SR 30,000. The second defendant was also found guilty of wasting public money, and was sentenced to one year in jail and a fine of SR 10,000. The third defendant, a Filipino, was found guilty of falsifying records, and was sentenced to one year in jail and a fine of SR 1,000. The court decided to suspend the case against the fourth defendant who had left the country before the case was filed. The court also decided to withhold the jail sentences of the first and third defendants. The defendants, however, expressed dissatisfaction with the ruling and said that far from wasting public money, they had in fact earned SR 60 million for JIP.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:51:56 +0000
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