Partners recommend tightening market oversight and deterring money laundering crimes.

Partners for Transparency released its monthly report, "Corruption Report for August 2025," which documented 84 corruption incidents across various sectors, marking a slight increase of 7.61% compared to July.

The report showed that the supply sector continued to top the list of the most corrupt sectors for the second month in a row, with a percentage of 36.91 TP3T, followed by the financial and banking sector with a percentage of 23.81 TP3T, then the local government and administrative corruption sector with a percentage of 19.041 TP3T, the education sector with a percentage of 14.281 TP3T, and finally the health sector with a percentage of 5.951 TP3T.

Cairo Governorate ranked first for the eighth consecutive month in terms of the number of recorded corruption incidents, with a rate of 28,571 TP3T, followed by Giza with 14,281 TP3T, then Sohag with 9,521 TP3T. Together, these governorates accounted for more than half of the total corruption incidents during the month.

The report indicated continued oversight activity, with security agencies conducting more than 31 inspection campaigns in the supply sector, more than 20 campaigns to combat money laundering and embezzlement, and 12 campaigns against fictitious educational entities, in addition to seizing unlicensed medical entities. The judicial arena also witnessed the issuance of prison sentences and fines against officials in the financial, medical, and administrative sectors.

Ahmed Issa, Director of the Research and Studies Unit, recommended the need to intensify market oversight to curb commercial fraud, restrict the work of unlicensed educational and medical entities, and enhance oversight of the financial sector using artificial intelligence technologies.