A court convicted and penalised the duo of committing the crime of a commercial cover-up by running a beauty parlour in the holy city of Mecca.
Saudi authorities have named two women – a Saudi citizen and an Egyptian national– to shame them after a court convicted them of committing the crime of a commercial cover-up by running a beauty parlour in the holy city of Mecca.
The Ministry of Commerce found evidence confirming that the expatriate identified as Mona Abdulshafi had illegally pursued her own business without obtaining a foreign investment licence by using a commercial register issued in the name of the citizen named Afia Hassan.
Authorities also discovered that the expat raked in high revenues from operating the parlour and gave a paltry sum of SR500 per month to the citizen in return for cover-up.
A disciplinary court issued a final ruling against both including naming to shame them, revoking the commercial register, liquidating the business, paying due taxes and deporting the expat from the kingdom.
