{"id":7674,"date":"2014-02-02T01:57:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T01:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2014-02-02T01:57:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T01:57:50","slug":"ksa-suffering-rampant-corruption-saudi-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/ksa-suffering-rampant-corruption-saudi-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"KSA suffering rampant corruption: Saudi Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divLead2\">\n<p><strong>A Saudi prince says his country is suffering from rampant and crouching corruption in state organizations, the scope of which is gradually being revealed to the public.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a letter to the head of Saudi Arabia\u2019s anti-corruption organization, Prince al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud has demanded that it stand against the financial corruption in the kingdom and reveal the names of the corrupt officials.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, local media said the multi-billion-dollar project of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s first locally-built car, an all-terrain vehicle called &#8220;Ghazal 1&#8221; does not really exist.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prince Bin Talal&#8217;s warning comes as Saudi Arabia approved in 2011 the creation of the anti-corruption commission in order to promote transparency and fight against financial and administrative corruption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In August 2013, exiled Saudi prince Khalid Bin Farhan Al Saud criticized the suppression of dissident voices and rampant corruption in the Middle East powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p>He questioned Saudi Arabia\u2019s stepped-up crackdown on anti-regime protests while supporting the militancy in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi prince also criticized the United States for ignoring corruption in Saudi Arabia due to long-term interests.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is the world&#8217;s largest oil exporter, with the black gold accounting for 90 percent of the country&#8217;s exports.<\/p>\n<p>However, corruption is so ingrained in Saud Arabia\u2019s royal family that despite the country\u2019s enormous oil money, it struggles with problems such as poverty and unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>Job growth and welfare programs in Saudi Arabia have failed to keep pace with a booming population that hiked from 6 million in 1970 to 28 million in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Saudi prince says his country is suffering from rampant and crouching corruption in state organizations, the scope of which is gradually being revealed to the public. In a letter to the head of Saudi Arabia\u2019s anti-corruption organization, Prince al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud has demanded that it stand against the financial corruption in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7676,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions\/7676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}