(MENAFN) All detainees who were at Riyadh's opulent Ritz-Carlton Hotel, which was used as an interrogation center in what authorities called "a purge of corruption", have been released according to a Saudi official.
The three-month-old anti-corruption campaign in which dozens of top officials and businessmen were detained by investigators, who said they intended to seize some USD100 billion of illicit assets, was drawing to a close.
"There are no longer any detainees left at the Ritz-Carlton," the official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity under briefing rules.
He did not say how many suspects stayed in detention at other locations in Saudi Arabia. Some are thought to have been transferred from the Ritz to prison after refusing to admit crime and reach financial settlements with the authorities.
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