"The tweets are considered a serious violation of Article 16 of the Cyber Law which stipulates that any person using Internet or cellphones that have cameras, for publishing news or trespassing into the private life of anybody, can be sent to jail for between one year and three years.
"The person can also be fined between OMR1,000 and OMR5,000 for this offence," the public prosecution said, adding that the businessman is currently facing charges in five different cases.
"If he has any grievance against anybody, he has to approach the competent authorities and not level baseless allegations against anybody," the public prosecution added.
"The relations, which he allegedly claimed in his tweets with the officials, or the ‘deals’ he had entered into with government officials, were in their personal capacity and not in their official capacity.
It has nothing do with the case," the public prosecution said.
Recently, his tweets had become a sensation on the social networking sites.
The tweets alleged corruption charges against some government officials.
Real estate deals
During the last decade when the real estate market in Oman was on the upswing, the Omani businessman had entered into contract with some real estate investors of other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
He had purchased land plots for investors in several wilayats above their actual price by falsely inflating the costs.
However, when the investors realised that they have been duped by the Omani businessman, they filed criminal cases against him in the competent courts for the recovery of their money.
The Public Prosecution started civil proceedings against him for the breach of trust.
In its verdict, Barka Court had awarded him a two-year jail sentence and a fine of OMR300 for the fraud committed by him.
"The total money demanded by the investors from the Omani businessman is OMR6,000,000," the public prosecution said.
According to reports of competent authorities of one of the Gulf countries, the Omani businessman is wanted globally for fraud and embezzlement cases.
He had posted a hashtag titled "Report to the General …. Al Naamani". More than 50,000 followed him on Twitter in less than five days.
