The Partners for Transparency Foundation (PFT) issued the eleventh report, which included monitoring and analyzing corruption incidents, in May 2016, as it detected 101 corruption incidents during the month, which were revealed by investigation authorities and various media outlets.
The month of May 2016 witnessed the disclosure of a major corruption case, the hero of which was the advisor to the current Minister of Health, where the man was arrested red-handed after taking a bribe secret moves from the Administrative Control Authority, which revealed the strength and speed of his movements in the past months to pursue the corrupt, and the month of May also witnessed several statements And traditional meetings of government officials related to combating corruption, while the legislative procedures were absent for the eleventh consecutive month despite the passage of nearly six months since the start of the current session of the Egyptian Parliament.
With regard to the statistical distribution of corruption incidents among the various ministries and sectors, the Ministry of Agriculture received the largest share of corruption incidents during May 2016, with a score of 17 corruption incidents, followed by the Ministry of Supply with a score of 15 corruption incidents, followed by the local sector with 12 incidents of corruption, followed by the Ministry of Interior 8 Incidents, followed by the ministries of health, education, education, irrigation and water resources, with 5 incidents of corruption each.
As for the judicial position, the report revealed that the incidents under investigation came first among corruption incidents during the month of May 2016, as it received the largest percentage of 67% out of a total of 101 incidents, followed by the incidents that were not investigated with a score of 17%, then the incidents under trial with a score of 15% In total, the judged incidents ranked last with 1% of total incidents.
Dr. Walaa Jad Al-Karim, Director General of Partners for Transparency, stated that the Foundation has succeeded so far in maintaining the periodicity of issuing its monthly report to monitor and analyze corruption incidents for the eleventh month in a row, and is currently working on developing a general concept for a combined report that the foundation will issue in next July that includes tracking The most famous and important incidents of corruption that were revealed during the last period, and what are the legal measures taken towards them, and the impact of the current legal frameworks on the course of these cases.
"Jad Al-Karim" affirmed that Partners for Transparency seeks from behind this to develop its capabilities in the field of monitoring and documentation, and to add a greater degree of depth to its reports and publications in a way that helps all stakeholders to adopt sound positions on the phenomenon of corruption.