Menoufia - Siham Fouda

Partners for Transparency (PFT) released its fifth monthly report in the Corruption Status Book series, covering the month of November, coinciding with the International Anti-Corruption Day.

Beginning in July 2015, the Foundation launched an observatory to track corruption incidents that are uncovered through the media, regulatory agencies, and relevant investigation authorities, as well as follow-up on the state's procedures in the case, and 90 corruption incidents were monitored, with an increase of 50% than the incidents that were monitored last October.

The report revealed that the Ministry of Supply came first among the sectors that witnessed incidents of corruption, during last November, with a score of 36 incidents of corruption, followed by the Ministry of Housing with a score of 7 incidents, after which came the Ministries of Communications and Health, with 5 incidents of corruption each.

With regard to the judicial position of the monitored facts, the report stated that the incidents under investigation came first among the corruption incidents during the month of November 2015 with a score of 70, followed by the facts under trial with 10 incidents, after that come the incidents that have not yet been investigated with 9 incidents. Finally, the facts that were judged come in the last place among the incidents that took place in October, with only one incident, which means that 90% is one of the recorded incidents in the possession of the competent judicial investigation authorities.

It is worth mentioning that the Partners for Transparency Foundation (PFT) is a non-governmental organization, declared in accordance with the provisions of Egyptian law, and that takes into account independence and neutrality politically and ideologically, and works to help society to consolidate and apply the values and practices of integrity, transparency, and accountability, in order to achieve comprehensive human development and respect for human rights. And the construction of a good governance system.