Veto Saturday, October 15, 2016 - 09:58 PM
The Public Prosecution decided to imprison 4 engineers and 3 employees of the Cairo Traffic Units for 4 days pending investigations in light of the accusations against them for requesting financial bribes in exchange for ending the citizens' procedures.
Major General Ayman Luqiya, Director of the Anti-Money Crime Department in Cairo, had received complaints from citizens stating that some employees of the traffic units forced them to pay sums of money in exchange for ending the licensing procedures. He immediately formed a working group headed by him that included Colonel Muhammad Al-Sedawi and Major Shady Abu Al-Makarem in cooperation with Cairo Traffic Investigation and under the supervision Major General Abdel Aziz Khidr, Director of the General Department of Cairo Investigations, set up an action plan to purge traffic units of the corrupt and those involved in incidents of bribes and disrupting the work of citizens.
After legalizing the necessary measures, Public Funds Investigation officers, in conjunction with Traffic Investigations, launched daily enlarged campaigns on all licensing units, to end the corrupt myth in offices, and efforts succeeded in arresting Imad Musa, a license renewal employee in one of the traffic units and a resident of the Amiriya Police Department, with an amount of 257 pounds. After he obtained an amount of 30 pounds from Ahmed Hussein, a driver and resident of the Zawiya Al-Hamra Police Department, in exchange for completing the facilitation of the procedures for renewing licenses for a “Tricycle” motorcycle.
An engineer and technician at the Al-Nuzha Traffic Unit were also caught taking money from citizens, engineers in the Nasr City Traffic Unit, a window employee who disrupted the citizens' procedures until they got money from them unlawfully, and an employee of the Katameya Traffic Unit took bribes from those who hesitated to the unit to finish their papers.
The employees inside the traffic units were caught red-handed and in possession of money. By discussing them, they admitted that the funds were proceeds from their criminal activity, and that citizens were used to collect money from them.
And by presenting to Major General Khaled Abdel-Al, Director of Cairo Security, the results of the campaigns, he ordered the defendants to be referred to the competent prosecution offices to undertake investigations and to write the necessary records regarding each incident separately.
