Prince Saud bin Abdulmohsen bin Abdulaziz Al Saud applied for a passport shortly after his uncle, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, ousted him as emir of Ha’il province in 2017. Under its economic citizenship program, Cyprus gives out passports in exchange for minimum investments of two million euros.

The Saudi anti-corruption authority said on Sunday that it has detained 298 government employees suspected of bribery, embezzlement, waste of public funds, and misuse of office.