Saudi Arabia corruption probe arrests rise to more than 200

Saudi Arabia corruption probe arrests rise to more than 200:

"Saudi Arabia said more than 200 people had now been detained as part of an anti-graft crackdown into at least $100bn in “systematic corruption and embezzlement” going back decades.

Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb, the kingdom’s attorney-general, said on Thursday that the probe launched by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s new anti-corruption committee was “proceeding quickly” and that seven of the 208 people arrested since Saturday had been released without charge.

“The potential scale of corrupt practices which have been uncovered is very large,” Sheikh Mojeb said. “The evidence for this wrongdoing is very strong and confirms the original suspicions which led the Saudi Arabian authorities to begin the investigation in the first place.”"



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