the Constitution

Saturday 17 June 2017

Haneen Al-Salamouni wrote

Partners for Transparency issued its twenty-third report, which includes an inventory of corruption incidents that were revealed during the month of May 2017, and their sectoral, geographic, and judicial classification.

The report stated that the month of May witnessed the holding of a number of events and activities in some academic institutions, ministries and government departments in the context of anti-corruption awareness and education.

Monitoring data in May indicated that the local sector came in first place among corruption incidents, with 15 incidents, while the Ministry of Supply ranked second with 13 corruption incidents, followed by the Ministry of Health with 11 incidents of corruption, then the Ministry of Education came with 5 incidents. Then the Ministry of Interior with 4 incidents, followed by the Ministry of Finance, Housing and Endowments with 3 incidents of corruption for each of them.

On the judicial level, it ranked first among corruption incidents during the month of May, as the largest percentage was recorded at 64% out of a total of 75 incidents, followed by the incidents under trial with a score of 20%, then came the facts that were judged by 9 %. It ranked last with a score of 7%.

Geographically, Cairo governorate still acquired the largest share of corruption incidents during the month of May, as it got 22 corruption incidents, followed by Giza governorate with 13 corruption incidents, then Qalyubia governorate with 10 incidents, followed by Alexandria governorate with 8 incidents.