RIYADH: Khaled Al-Muhaisin, head of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Nazaha), told participants at the Arab Convention Against Corruption in Cairo that Saudi Arabia is committed to fighting corruption, working to achieve citizen's interest and saving public money.

The Kingdom has enacted a number of laws, systems and procedures, which protects the integrity and prevents corruption, he observed, adding it has also taken several measures to detect and prosecute those guilty of bribery, besides streamlining the system of accountability and transparency at the organizational level.

In its report, Nazaha has revealed that as many as 22,035 corruption-related communiqué were submitted to the organization since its inception six years ago.

According to it, reports on abuse of power and the financial irregularities have topped the list of reports accounting for 39 percent of the total, while misuse of public funds stood at 14 percent. Bribery cases came at the bottom of the list with less than 3 percent of the total reports.