Partners for Transparency issued its eighteenth report in the Corruption Status Book series, through which procedural and legislative developments and statements related to combating corruption are monitored and analyzed, as well as monitoring and analyzing corruption incidents that have been revealed or published through various media outlets, as the report covers a month December 2016.

The month of December 2016 witnessed the biggest corruption incident that was exposed through the Administrative Control Authority, which is the case of the arrest of a senior employee in the State Council on charges of taking a bribe and seizing 155 million pounds in his possession, and the ensuing arrest of the former Secretary General of the State Council who died by suicide. After that, December 2016 also witnessed the first public appearance of the Head of Administrative Control, speaking about its role in the previous monitoring of the national projects that are inaugurated.

Regarding the events that took place in the month, the Partners for Transparency Report revealed that the month of December witnessed 51 corruption incidents, 10 of which were in the Ministry of Supply, 9 in the local sector, 7 in the Ministry of Agriculture, 5 in the health sector, and 3 in the Ministry of Justice.
With regard to the judicial position, the facts under investigation came first among corruption incidents during the month of December 2016, where the largest percentage was recorded at 70%, followed by the incidents that were judged 14%, then the cases under trial by 10 %, then the incidents that were not investigated came with a score of 6 %.

Geographically, Cairo governorate still got the largest share of corruption incidents during the month of December 2016 with a percentage of 33% of corruption incidents, followed by Beheira governorate with a rate of 11%, followed by Giza governorate with a rate of 101 TP1T, while Menoufia and Qena governorates got 81 TP1T for each of them.