Al-Hayat daily reported that concerned authorities in Saudi Arabia banned the travel of suspects in the case of a Lebanese resident in the Kingdom whose bank account contained one billion Saudi Riyals.
The suspects included five Saudi officials at the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, one of them is the undersecretary of the Ministry.
The daily added that the concerned authorities ordered the Financial Investigation Unit to restrict the accounts and investigate the activities of one of the suspects, who is a Lebanese national.
According to the report, the five suspects will stand before trial over the upcoming days in Jeddah on charges related to money laundering.