Three sentenced in corruption case in Oman

13 January 2014

Government official and two executives jailed and fined in Oman crackdown on corruption

The Court of First Instance in Muscat, Oman has sentenced a senior government official and two private-sector executives to up to three years each in prison on corruption charges.

The rulings were handed down on 12 January as part of a crackdown on corruption in the Gulf state in the wake of the political unrest in 2011.

Juma al-Hinai, an official in Oman’s Finance Ministry, who also serves as head of the tenders committee at state-owned Petroleum Development Oman, was given a three-year sentence and fined RO600,000 ($1.56m), Reuters has reported. He was also banned from holding public office for 20 years.

The court also sentenced Mohammed Ali, managing director of Galfar Engineering, to three years in prison and Galfar official Abdullmajeed Nushad to two years in jail. Ali was also ordered to pay RO600,000 in fines, while Nushad was fined RO200,000.

Ali and Nushad, who hold Indian citizenship, are to be deported after they serve their sentences.

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