The Public Funds Prosecution is investigating a complaint accusing the head of the National Planning Institute of wasting public money, by disbursing international grants in capacity-building and institutional building projects for employees of the National Planning Institute for this year.

The investigations conducted by the Public Funds Prosecution in the report submitted by Osama Abu Zikra, the lawyer, an agent for a number of employees of the institute, who carried higher public funds No. 1012 of 2016, included disbursement documents that show the crime of concealing the sums of money in the value of the grant sent from the Technical Assistance Fund to medium countries The income of the African Development Bank, with a top of 14 million pounds, code 2007 Development Studies and Research Project.

The investigations added that the African Development Bank sent a grant to the Ministry of Planning with a value of 14 million pounds, and the ministry sent it to the Planning Institute to conduct research and development studies at the National Planning Institute, but the latter disbursed the sums without exchange documents confirming what was spent to implement the plans of studies and research, as well as no There is a documentary or accounting cycle in violation of the law, so that the disbursement of these sums and whoever receives them can be pursued since they are public funds. The law specifies the ways of spending and obtaining them, whether public employees or public bodies.