Counselor Sameh Kamal - Head of the Administrative Prosecution Authority ordered the referral of the former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Authority for Drinking Water and Sanitation for urgent trial.
The prosecution had received the CAO report regarding gross financial irregularities and a waste of public money in excess of one billion pounds as a result of the following serious financial violations:
1) The former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Authority for Drinking Water and Sanitation issues assignment orders, by direct agreement, to some companies and bodies to implement some projects of the National Authority for Drinking Water and Sanitation in amounts exceeding the legally determined financial limit, with a value exceeding eight hundred and forty five million pounds (845 million) And without making studies of the nature of the work to be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Tenders and Auctions Law No. 89/1998, with amounts exceeding the legally determined maximum financial limit for the head of the business, which is an amount of 100 thousand pounds only, despite the presence of the same items in the stores of companies and factories contracting with the authority, which could have benefited from those Items without resorting to issuing assignment orders intended for them.
2) The former Minister of Housing (during the period from 2008-2011) issued more than 200 attribution orders with extremely large amounts of money and by direct agreement of some companies and bodies to implement some projects of the National Authority for Drinking Water and Sanitation in excess of the financial limit prescribed for him legally - an amount of 300 One thousand pounds - in violation of the Tenders and Auctions Law.
3) Assigning the implementation of the project to feed 240 small villages with water by direct order without prior study, which resulted in the maintenance of a large number of supplies supplied since 2006 due to the failure to implement a lot of electromechanical works for this project by not completing only 13 water stations out of 95 A station and not taking any measures against the non-implementation of the rest of the stations in addition to wasting an amount of 96 million pounds by spending it in exchange for the value of the tasks supplied for the implementation of the project of 240 small villages without any right, because this amount represents 88 1TTP1T of the value of the supplied works although only a percentage of 70% of the value of those tasks and items.
4) The former head of the National Authority for Drinking Water and Sanitation converted a good loan contract in the amount of 350 million pounds - granted by the Arab Organization for Industrialization to the National Authority for Drinking Water and Sanitation into a contract, in direct agreement with the Kaha Chemicals Factory, to supply electrochemical equipment to sewage plants of the same amount, according to The contract dated 16/10/2006, without obtaining the approval of the competent authority, which was the Prime Minister at the time, infringing “the financial quorum legally established for him.”
Investigations into the report were initiated by Mr. Ahmed Al Shaarawy - Chief Prosecutor and member of the technical office of the head of the authority under the supervision of Counselor Mohamed Kamal - Undersecretary of the office, and it has been proven from the investigations into the incident that the head of the National Authority for Drinking Water and Sanitation issued 15 attribution orders through direct agreement with amounts exceeding the financial quorum allowed to contract Within its limits, whose value exceeded an amount of eight hundred forty-five million pounds (845 million), without making studies of the nature of the work to be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Tenders and Auctions Law No. 89/1998, with amounts exceeding the financial limit legally established for the head of the business, which is only 100 thousand pounds despite the existence of the same The items in the warehouses of the companies and factories contracting with the Commission, which could have benefited from those items without resorting to the issuance of the assignment orders for which they were intended, and accordingly the prosecution ordered that he be referred to urgent trial.
The prosecution also ordered the attorney general to notify the attorney general about what was raised before the former Minister of Housing (during the period from 2008-2011) to issue more than 200 assignment orders with extremely large sums of money and with the direct agreement of some companies and bodies to implement some projects for the National Authority for Drinking Water and Sanitation, including The financial limit legally set for him - an amount of 300 thousand pounds - exceeds the law of tenders and auctions, as explained in detail in the report, the subject of the communication and attached to the documents, in addition to “the investigation of the Supreme Public Funds Prosecution in Case No. 495 of 2014 to count higher public funds registered with No. 129 of the year 2014 Highest public funds investigation survey.
The prosecution also ordered the inclusion of gross financial irregularities revealed by the investigations in the event of auditing the accounts of the National Authority for Drinking Water and Sanitation for the fiscal year 2012-2013 - with the knowledge of the Central Auditing Agency - including assigning the work of implementing the project to feed 240 small villages with water by direct order without prior study This resulted in a large number of supplied tasks since 2006 due to the lack of implementation of many electromechanical works for this project, by not completing only 13 water stations from 95 stations and not taking any measures against the non-implementation of the rest of the stations in addition to wasting an amount of 96 million pounds. In exchange for the value of the tasks supplied for the implementation of the project of 240 small villages without a right, because this amount represents 88 % of the value of the supplied works, although only the 70% percentage of the value of those tasks and items should have been paid, to the investigations conducted by the prosecution in Case No. 54 / 2015 Head of Authority Technical Office for Subject Unit.
The prosecution also ordered that the gross financial violations revealed by the investigations that the former head of the National Authority for Drinking Water and Sanitation transferred a good loan contract in the amount of 350 million pounds - granted by the Arab Organization for Industrialization to the National Authority for Drinking Water and Sanitation - into a contract in direct agreement with the Qaha Factory. Chemicals for the supply of electromechanical tasks to sewage plants of the same amount, according to the contract dated 10/16/2006, without obtaining the approval of the competent authority, which is the Prime Minister at the time, to pass the quorum legally established for him as head of the authority to Case No. 55 of 2015 in the Technical Office of the President of the Authority To the unity of the subject.
In light of what the prosecution's investigations revealed in the present case of widespread corruption inside the former Ministry of Housing “and withdrew by subordination to its affiliated bodies, including the National Authority for Drinking Water and Sanitation, which was represented by its former president usurping the authority and deviating from it by issuing assignment orders the above statement in huge sums approaching one billion pounds I paid. From the state treasury illegally and not for the purpose assigned to it, and severely harmed the public money, and what led to the leakage of these funds illegally to those who are not entitled to them and profit them from public money without right, the prosecution ordered the referral of the aforementioned accused to urgent trial with the continuation of investigations into violations Other gross financial as the above statement.Portal News
