Partners for Transparency Association (PFT) issued its sixth report to monitor and follow up incidents of corruption within the series of monthly reports it publishes entitled "Corruption Status Book", in which it monitors the incidents of corruption in Egyptian government agencies on a monthly basis, as well as for monitoring the legislative measures related to combating corruption, as well as listing the incidents that It was covered by various media during the month of December 2015.
The report detected 87 corruption incidents during the month, slightly down from last month (November 2015), with the catering sector continuing to be at the top of the list in terms of the number of corruption incidents that are revealed.
Legislative measures to combat corruption during the month of December:
During the month of December 2015, many seminars, training workshops and meetings were held in some governorates and ministries, to confirm the state’s plans and efforts in combating corruption, as well as the presence of various statements by government officials in the fight against corruption, headed by Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, in which he emphasized that the government Do not spare any effort to activate the role of the various regulatory agencies, as President "Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi" directed the governors to work to raise the rates of development and combat corruption within state agencies, especially localities.
Corruption facts during the month of December
The Ministry of Supply achieved the largest share of corruption incidents during the month of December 2015, with a score of 22 incidents of corruption, followed by the local sector with 9 incidents of corruption, after that the Ministry of Health came with 8 incidents, followed by the Ministry of Education with 7 incidents, followed by the Ministry of Higher Education and the Ministry Communications, the Ministry of Interior, with 4 incidents each, followed by the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, and the Banking Sector with 3 incidents each.
Then come the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Housing, Trade Unions, the Ministry of Petroleum, the Ministry of Youth and Sports with two incidents of corruption each, and finally, the Radio and Television Authority, the Industrial Development Authority, the Central Auditing Organization, the Ministry of Tourism, the Ministry Social solidarity, public figures, the Ministry of Electricity, Parliament, the Ministry of Manpower, the Ministry of Finance, the private sector, in last place, with only one incident each.
The corruption incidents under investigation come first among the corruption incidents during the month of December 2015, with a score of 56, followed by the incidents that were not investigated with a score of 17 incidents, after that the facts under trial come with 10 incidents, and finally, the facts that have been judged come in the last place. In December, with only 4 incidents.
The most important incidents of corruption during the month of December:
1- Accusing the president of Suez Canal University with facilitating corruption, wasting public money, and practicing partisan business inside the university in violation of the law (Egypt Today, December 3, 2015.).
2- The central legal affairs of the Radio and Television Union building were accused of wasting nearly 250,000 pounds. (Ona, December 4, 2015.) 8P.
3- The trial of businessman Ahmed Ezz and Amr Asal, former head of the Industrial Development Authority, continues in the case of “iron licenses”, accusing them of wasting public money, amounting to 660 million pounds, and facilitating its seizure (News Al-Youm, December 4, 2015.)
4- Investigating the incidents of waste and appropriation of public money, by some officials of the Workers ’College and the Workers’ Cultural Foundation, with a value of EGP 19.395 million. (Al-Akhbar newspaper, December 4, 2015.)
5- Accusations of financial and administrative corruption incidents and legal lax by the Legal Affairs Department of the Directorate of Education in Alexandria in holding accountable those wasters of public money. (Voice of the Nation, December 4, 2015.)
