The Criminal Court – State Security Circuit, headed by Counselor Nasser Al-Badr and with the membership of Judges Omar Al-Mulaifi, Abdullah Al-Faleh and Salem Al-Zayed, sentenced 10 expatriates to 5- and 10-years imprisonment with hard labor and fined them 44 million dinars, and fined 6 companies 22 million dinars, on charges of money laundering.

The accused were charged with forming an organized criminal group through which they committed the crime of laundering money obtained from the crimes of harming the national interests of the country, with their knowledge of this.