Partners for Transparency: 140 million pounds a corruption bill per month

Partners for Transparency issued its new report in the “Corruption Status Book” series, which covers the month of August 2017, and includes a different discussion and analysis of corruption incidents and new sections of the report issued by the Foundation more than two years ago.

The report included a new section entitled “Those who fell in the mud… stories on the sidelines of the notebook”, which dealt with the most important incidents of corruption witnessed in the past month, shed light on the perpetrators and the circumstances and contexts related to the case, and provided an in-depth analysis of the incident, linking it to similar incidents in the past, and then seeing For procedural and legislative reforms required not to be repeated in the future.

Under the title “Iron Women Fall in the Mud of Corruption”, the report dealt with the story of the rise and fall of Suad El-Khouly, Deputy Governor of Alexandria, who was arrested by the Administrative Control on charges of bribery and damaging public money and profit. Al-Abyad, the report dealt with the dimensions of the incident of arresting the head of the Alexandria Misdemeanor Court on the charge of receiving a bribe in exchange for the judgment in favor of one of the defendants in the case before him.

Finally, under the heading “Taxes and Customs… When the state’s sovereign revenues pay the bill for corruption,” the report deals with incidents of corruption in two of the most important bodies of the Ministry of Finance, which are the two bodies responsible for collecting the sovereign resources of the Egyptian state, “taxes and customs”.

The report indicated that the month of August witnessed 60 corruption incidents, 18% of which were in the catering sector, 101 TP1T in each health and finance sector, and 81 TP1T in each of the localities, telecommunications, information technology, education, agriculture and justice sectors, while the endowment, interior, transport and public business sectors were witnessed. Electricity, trade, industry, trade unions and culture 20% combined facts.

The report said that Cairo governorate continues to witness the largest number of corruption incidents during the month of August 2017, as it witnessed 30% incidents of corruption that were monitored during the month, followed by Giza Governorate with 12% incidents, and then Beheira Governorate 10% of incidents.

As for the most prominent of what was mentioned in the August report, regarding the estimated financial cost of corruption incidents, the report indicated that the value of the estimated cost of corruption incidents that were seized during the month of August from embezzlement, bribery and waste of public money, amounted to nearly 140 million, specifically the value of the amounts The announced in some - but not all - of the incidents 139 million and 944 thousand and 620 pounds, which is a preliminary estimate, and the arrests of some officials of the customs and tax authorities accounted for the largest percentage of this cost.