The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia decided to punish a Syrian resident with imprisonment, a fine, and deportation, after he was convicted of doing business in the Kingdom without disclosing his work.
And the Saudi News Agency, “WAS”, said that the Saudi Ministry of Commerce defamed a Syrian resident after a court ruling was issued convicting him of committing the crime of covering up in the practice of commercial activity with building materials.
And “WAS” added that the cover-up was caught while he was transporting large quantities of marble stone on one of the main roads, as it turned out that his work specializes in importing marble stone for home facades, shipping it and transporting it to buyers in the regions of the Kingdom.
According to the agency, it was found that the volume of his financial transactions increased through the transfer of funds resulting from his unlicensed commercial activity outside Saudi Arabia.
Accordingly, he was referred to the Public Prosecution, and then to the judiciary, in implementation of the provisions of the anti-cover-up system.
The Criminal Court in Riyadh issued a judicial ruling imprisoning him for one year, imposing a fine of 100,000 riyals, and defaming him at his expense, in addition to the ancillary penalties prescribed by law, which are closing the facility, termination of activity, writing off the commercial register, prohibition from engaging in commercial activity, collecting zakat, fees and taxes, and banishing him from Kingdom and not allow him to return to work.
The Kingdom had announced a while ago the national program to combat cover-up, which adopted modern mechanisms that contribute to restricting the sources of cover-up and eliminating the shadow economy, where 20 government agencies are working to control the undercover using artificial intelligence techniques, data and information analysis, and inflict regular penalties that reach five years in prison. And a fine of 5 million riyals, and the seizure and confiscation of illegal funds after the issuance of final judicial rulings against those involved.
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