Saudi police arrested an Indian private driver on charges of involvement in the laundering of SR14 billion ($3.7 billion), a newspaper reported on Monday.
The driver is among 16 people arrested this week for transferring the funds outside Saudi Arabia through illegal channels, Al Watan Arabic language daily said.
It quoted security sources as saying the driver confessed to receiving funds every month from several expatriate workers for SR3,500 commissions.
“He admitted that he was receiving the money in bags and giving them to another person to transfer them outside the kingdom,” it said.