The Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) said government efforts are paying dividends in the area of forged certificates as only 5 cases of forged certificates were indentified last year as against 52 in 2018.
The authority indicated that it was able to monitor 6 cases of suspicions of money laundering within two years, and provided legal protection to 32 whistleblowers including a personal security guard, reports a local Arabic daily.
In its latest report for 2021-2022, Nazaha showed it was able to provide protection to this number of whistleblowers since the issuance of the executive regulations in 2016 until last March, including “personal protection for one and 26 functional and administrative protection by preventing any retaliatory administrative action being taken” against the whistleblower, and guarantee the validity of the job salary, rights and legal benefits” during the period determined by the authority.
Nazaha announced that it had received reports about 186 cases — 49 of them related to suspicions of corruption and waste of public money, 30 related to facilitating seizure, 6 suspicions of money laundering and 34 suspicions of fraud during fiscal 2020-2021 following which the authority recorded 3 suspicions of corruption, abuse of influence, and one of customs evasion, profiteering, and 5 suspicions of illegal gain, adding that 18,621 financial disclosure statements were examined from the beginning of the committees’ work until last March, representing 67% of total returns examined.
Nazaha indicated 300 trainees from 104 different government institutions participated in workshops and introductory seminars on the Right to Information Law, with the aim of ensuring its implementation, benefiting from international expertise in its field, and raising awareness among the authorities.
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