Partners for Transparency (PFT) issued the eleventh report, which included monitoring and analysis of corruption incidents in May 2016, as part of the "Corruption Status Book" series, where the Foundation monitored 101 corruption incidents during May, which were revealed through Investigations and various media outlets.
According to the organization's report, the month of May witnessed the disclosure of a major corruption case, the hero of which was the advisor to the current Minister of Health, as he was arrested in the act of taking a bribe, after secret moves by the Administrative Control Authority, with the aim of prosecuting the corrupt.
May also witnessed, according to the report, several traditional statements and meetings of government officials related to combating corruption, while legislative procedures were absent for the eleventh month in a row, despite the passage of nearly 6 months since the start of the current session of the Egyptian Parliament.
With regard to the statistical distribution of corruption incidents among the various ministries and sectors, the Ministry of Agriculture received the largest share of corruption incidents during May 2016, with a score of 17 corruption incidents, followed by the Ministry of Supply with 15 corruption incidents, followed by the local sector with 12 incidents of corruption, followed by the Ministry of Interior 8 incidents. Then comes the ministries of “Health, Education, Irrigation, and Water Resources,” with 5 incidents of corruption for each of them.
As for the judicial position, the report revealed that the incidents under investigation came first among corruption incidents in May 2016, as it received the largest percentage of 67% out of a total of 101 incidents, followed by the incidents that were not investigated by 17%, then the incidents under trial with a score of 15%, The incidents were judged last by 1% of total incidents.
For his part, Dr. Walaa Jad Al-Karim, Director General of Partners for Transparency, said that the Foundation has succeeded so far in maintaining the periodicity of issuing its monthly report to monitor and analyze corruption incidents for the eleventh month in a row, and is currently working on developing a general concept for a combined report that the foundation will issue next July It includes tracking the most famous and important incidents of corruption that were revealed during the last period, the legal measures that were taken towards them, and the impact of current legal frameworks on the progress of cases.
Jad Al-Karim emphasized that "Partners for Transparency" seeks from this to develop its capabilities in the field of monitoring and documentation, and to add a greater degree of depth to its reports and publications in a way that helps all stakeholders to adopt sound positions on the phenomenon of corruption.
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