Wednesday 13 July 2016 02:19 PM

Ahmad Al-Sheikh

Partners for Transparency PFT issued the twelfth report, which included monitoring and analysis of corruption incidents in the month of June 2016, as the Foundation monitored 83 corruption incidents during the month, which are the incidents that were revealed through the investigation authorities and various media.

The month of June 2016 witnessed a televised advertising campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of corruption aimed at modifying the behavior and values of citizens to combat wasta, favoritism, and bureaucratic procedures of officials in government ministries, and the month witnessed several statements by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi aimed at emphasizing the fight against corruption and the independence of the regulatory agencies, as well as statements by officials and deputies Parliament is in the same direction, except that it did not witness corresponding developments in the legislative or procedural environment. June also witnessed the prosecution's investigation of the former head of the Central Auditing Organization, Counselor, Hisham Geneina, about his statements about the cost of corruption.

In terms of facts, the Ministry of Supply won the largest share of corruption incidents during the month of June 2016 with 15 incidents of corruption out of a total of 83 incidents, among them what was revealed by the control and security agencies of the involvement of 38 officials in the manipulation of supplies of wheat and silos, which are estimated at 315 million Egyptian pounds. Among them is a senior official within the Ministry of Supply, and in second place, the Ministry of Agriculture came with a score of 10 incidents of corruption, after that comes the localities with 9 incidents of corruption, then the Ministry of Interior with a score of 7 incidents, followed by the Ministry of Investment and Transport with 6 incidents.

As for the judicial position, the report revealed that the incidents under investigation came first among the corruption incidents during June 2016, where the largest percentage was 67% out of a total of 83 incidents, followed by the incidents under trial with 17 %, then the incidents that were not investigated came with a score of 11 % Finally, the incidents that were judged ranked last, with a percentage of 5% of the total number of incidents.