Manama, April 13: A company manager confessed to paying a bribe to the dismissed Bahraini minister accused in the international money laundering scam.
The owner said that he agreed to pay him BD400000 (over $1 million) over a period of time, in order to get a government tender for work. The accused received half the amount according to the manager.
The findings were revealed by the public lawyer Abdulrahman Al Sayyed in his statement on Sunday.
He said the evidences and interrogations proved that former minister Mansoor bin Rajab had undertaken several violations during his tenure. He said that the official will be charged with bribing.
The manager also confessed that he had given the money to one of the employees working in the office of the official who in turn transferred it to the account of the official.
Moreover, during the interrogation, the employee told the Public Prosecution that his action was based on instructions from the former minister who had requested him to deposit the money in his private account.
Following the investigation of both accounts it was revealed that the amount was taken from the manager’s account and deposited in the government official’s account.
–Agencies