(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) The criminal court in Muscat has sentenced the CEO of Oman Oil Company (OOC) to 23 years of imprisonment and fined him RO5mn in a case related to corruption in awarding contracts for the construction of an aromatics plant in Sohar.
The court ordered his permanent dismissal from service and confiscation of the money he received as bribe.
The second defendant in the case, a former employee at the now dissolved Ministry of National Economy was also convicted, for organising a bribe offered by a senior official of LGI, a South Korean-based firm to the CEO of OOC, and sentenced him to ten years in jail, besides imposing a fine of RO4mn.
The third defendant, a senior employee of LGI, who was charged with offering a bribe to the OOC chief, was sentenced to ten years' jail and fined RO4mn, besides deportation after the end of his jail term.
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