The Partners for Transparency Foundation report recorded 85 incidents of corruption during September, a decrease of 20%, compared to what was recorded in August.
The third monthly report in the "Corruption Status Book series", which covers the period from September 1 to September 30, within the framework of the institution’s launch, starting from the first of July, explained an observatory to track corruption incidents that are uncovered through the media, regulatory agencies and relevant investigation authorities. In addition to following up the procedures of the state concerned with the case.
The report focused on monitoring and analyzing legislative and procedural developments related to combating corruption, in addition to counting the facts that were reported by various media outlets during the month of September.
The report indicated that the government's statements related to fighting corruption were more intense this month than before, pointing out that the main reason for this may be the political and media uproar that accompanied the disclosure of the Ministry of Agriculture corruption scandal, then the change of the prime minister and a number of its ministers, and thus the tendency A large number of officials to declare seemingly hard-line positions towards corruption within their sectors.
He explained that at the same time, legislative solutions are still absent from the scene, despite its strong political positions, the most prominent of which was the acceptance of the government's resignation, but the state did not intervene during the month of September with laws and decisions that would deal with the phenomenon of widespread corruption in Egypt.
He mentioned that the activities organized by a number of governmental bodies and organizations related to combating corruption are all ostensibly aimed at educating their employees and qualifying them to engage in anti-corruption efforts, while these activities in practice lack coherence, methodology and proper planning to allow measuring their impact and impact on the behaviors and practices of employees within those bodies. distance.
The report revealed that the Ministry of Supply and Localities came on top of the sectors that witness corruption for the second month in a row, with a score of 18, 12 incidents in the two sectors in a row during last September, while the number of cases under investigation ranked first among corruption incidents during the month of September 60 cases, followed by The cases under trial are with 14 cases, then after that come the cases that have been judged with 7 cases, and finally, the cases that were not investigated come last with 4 cases only.
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