"Partners for Transparency" issues the first report of the "Corruption Status Book"

Asma Othman
Partners for Transparency (PFT) released its first monthly report in the “Corruption Status Book Series of Reports”, which covers the period from (1-31) July 2015. Starting from July 1, 2015, the Foundation launched an observatory to track corruption incidents that are uncovered from Through the relevant media, regulatory agencies and investigation authorities, as well as following up on the procedures of the state concerned with the case.

The report comes within the framework of "Partners for Transparency (PFT)" conviction that uncovering, monitoring and tracking corruption practices is an essential weapon in the system of war against corruption, and that it helps decision-making authorities to adopt policies, legislative procedures and implementation steps aimed at reducing the phenomenon and holding perpetrators of corruption crimes accountable.

The report reviewed the governmental measures taken during the month of July 2015, and revealed that they included the establishment of coordination bodies to combat corruption, but they did not include specific mechanisms that guarantee the efficiency of work within these bodies, in addition to that they did not set a time limit for the completion of these bodies from their work.

The report also reviewed the decision of the President of the Republic that allows him to dismiss the heads of the supervisory agencies, which was the subject of great controversy in Egyptian society, as many dealt with the decision as targeting the person of the current head of the Central Auditing Organization, and although the Presidency Institution denied targeting a specific person, it did not reveal Clearly about the dimensions and justifications for issuing the decision, especially since some see a conflict between the decision and some of the texts of the Egyptian constitution.

In terms of facts, the report revealed that the month of July 2015 witnessed 71 corruption incidents, 11 of which were in the local authorities, 9 in the Ministry of Health, 8 in the petroleum sector, 6 in agriculture and the same in the effects, 5 in youth and sports, 4 in Al Dakhiliya, and the rest were distributed On several other sectors, with rates ranging from one to three incidents.

The report also revealed that the number of cases under investigation ranks first among corruption cases this month with a score of 24, and then comes the cases that have not been investigated with a score of 22 incidents, followed by the cases under trial with a score of 19, and finally the cases that have been adjudicated Last place, with 6 facts, was completed with various penalties.

It is worth noting that the Partners for Transparency Foundation (PFT) is a non-governmental organization, recognized in accordance with the provisions of Egyptian law, that takes into account independence and neutrality "politically" and "ideologically". The Foundation works within the framework of helping society to consolidate and apply the values and practices of integrity, transparency, accountability, and access To achieve comprehensive "human" development and respect for human rights, and to construct a system of good governance, based in its work on an intellectual and legal framework closely related to the international system for the protection of human rights, the assumptions of social development, and the standards of good governance.

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