The Saudi Public Transport Company (SAPTCO) (Arabic: الشركة السعودية للنقل الجماعي) is a public owned transport company, which operates urban buses in Riyadh, Jeddah, and Mecca; intercity buses; and international buses to the UAE, Egypt (via ferry connection), Jordan and Bahrain.
[3] The enterprise was established on 4 February 1979, with the issuance of Royal Decree No.
SAPTCO was created by signing contracts with American transportation companies to manage it, with the money being provided by the Saudi government, and Saleh Kamel acting as the middleman and collecting a percentage of the contracts as a fee.
On 4 November 2017, Kamel was arrested in Saudi Arabia in a "corruption crackdown" conducted by a new royal anti-corruption committee.
[5][6] It was the first purge organized by Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.