Corruption Status Book

Ninth report "March 2016"

76 incidents of corruption in March, with supply on top of the sectors and Cairo on top of the governorates

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Within the framework of the “Corruption Status Book” series, “Partners for Transparency” PFT continues to issue monthly reports to monitor and follow up incidents of corruption, and here is the ninth report issued by the institution, as it focuses on monitoring and analyzing legislative and procedural developments related to combating corruption, as well as an inventory of the facts covered by it. Various media outlets during the month of March 2016.

And the month of March 2016 witnessed a statement by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi during his meeting with young people studying the presidential program to qualify young people for leadership, during which he affirmed the will of the state to combat corruption and referred to the creation of ideas to eliminate it and also issued a decision to dismiss Counselor Hisham Geneina, head of the Central Auditing Organization, from his post.

Legislative measures to combat corruption during the month of March 2016:

Despite the president’s approach to fighting corruption, the parliament refused to introduce a “integrity and transparency” committee, and it gave the public an impression that the parliament is going against the will of the state in combating corruption and may hinder many laws that aim to eliminate corruption, and the month of March 2016 witnessed several decisions of the president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and the most important of which is the dismissal of Counselor Hisham Geneina, head of the Central Auditing Organization, against the background of what was raised by a report issued by the agency related to the cost of corruption, and a counter report prepared by a special committee that proved the inaccuracy of the agency’s report, which sparked a strong wave of controversy in the Egyptian street. The following is a review of what has been monitored in this regard: -

• March 1, 2016The Minister of Supply confirmed that a bill for consumer protection has been prepared with the aim of activating market oversight, as well as the existence of legislation that allows the work of the Consumer Protection Agency in a manner that ensures citizens' access to goods and services, and that legislative amendments will be presented to Parliament for approval.
• March 1, 2016: New Valley University in Qena is organizing a two-day training program entitled “Disseminating Integrity, Transparency and Anti-Corruption Values Measures” for 36 trainees from the faculty and their assistants in the university's faculties.
• March 2, 2016: The head of the General Authority for Veterinary Services at the Ministry of Agriculture announced that 14 measures and executive officers have been taken to control the circulation of meat in the markets to limit the sale of meat not suitable for local consumption.
• March 5, 2016: Dr. Ahmed Zaki Badr, Minister of Local Development, announced that no governor or official has been involved in corruption cases recently, saying: “Whoever has evidence or evidence of a conviction or corruption for any governor or official must submit it immediately to the Attorney General.”
• March 7, 2016: Parliament rejected the creation of a committee named "integrity and transparency".
• March 8, 2016The General Office of Fayoum Governorate organized a symposium entitled “Administrative Corruption and How to Confront It” in the presence of the Governor and the Bureau's leaders. The symposium also emphasized the role of transparency and clarification as a basic criterion for combating corruption.
• March 10, 2016: Minister of Planning Dr. Ashraf El-Araby announced that Egypt ranks 94th internationally in combating corruption, and ranked 110 in human development, while it ranked 125 in the quality of life for citizens, this came during his speech at the Sustainable Development Strategy Conference “Egypt 2030 in Alexandria.”
• March 10, 2016Helwan University organized the second in a series of seminars for students of military education under the slogan: “No to corruption,” within the framework of implementing the university’s plan to combat corruption.
• March 10, 2016The Central Committee to Combat Corruption at Aswan University has concluded its training course in order to disseminate procedures for the values of integrity and transparency and to raise awareness of the dangers of corruption and ways to prevent it.
• March 10, 2016The activities of the first anti-corruption training course, which was held from 6 to 10 March in the General Office of the New Valley Governorate, have ended according to the program prepared in advance by the Administrative Control Authority.
• March 10, 2016The Red Sea Governorate held a meeting of the Anti-Corruption Subcommittee, ways to activate the concept of internal control, which is considered an element in activating the anti-corruption strategy.
• March 12, 2016: MP Akmal Kartam denounced the parliament’s refusal to create an anti-corruption committee, explaining that “Egypt is in dire need to combat corruption and recover the stolen money.”
• March 13, 2016The advisor to the Minister of Local Development stated that the citizen caused the employee’s corruption, following an opinion poll conducted by the ministry with the citizens on the most prominent manifestations of corruption they suffer from.
• March 15, 2016: The Kharga Media Center in the New Valley Governorate held a media seminar to raise awareness of the concept of corruption, images and methods of confrontation, with the participation of a number of government officials.
• March 16, 2016The Capacity Development Center for faculty members and leaders at Damanhour University organized a workshop to train professional trainers and participants in the center to publish procedures for the values of integrity, transparency and anti-corruption at the university administration headquarters.
• March 17, 2016: Dr. Gaber Nassar, President of Cairo University, explained that the main reasons for the deterioration of the educational process at the university are the corruption of the system, and therefore decisive decisions were taken to eliminate the waste of money.
• March 19, 2016: President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi affirmed the state's will to combat corruption in all its forms, pointing to the importance of finding innovative ideas to eradicate this scourge and address the conditions that led to it.
• March 20, 2016: Dr. Ahmed Al-Jayoushi, Deputy Minister of Education for Technical Education Affairs, announced that the ministry has formed five anti-corruption committees in educational directorates nationwide, in addition to 27 sub-committees.
• March 21, 2016: The Santa Culture House organized a symposium entitled “How to Prevent Administrative Corruption” in cooperation with the Local Council of Al-Santa City and Center.
• March 24, 2016: The Executive Committee for Combating Corruption in Matrouh Governorate held a meeting that included discussing the system of administrative reform in the country. Offers were also made to publish the values of integrity in the administrative apparatus.
• March 26, 2016: Justice Minister Counselor Muhammad Husam Abdel Rahim, succeeding Counselor Ahmed Al-Zand, confirmed that the issues of reconciliation, combating corruption and smuggled money are my top priorities.
• March 28, 2016 President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi issued a republican decree relieving Counselor Hisham Ahmed Fouad Geneina, head of the Central Auditing Organization, from his post.
• March 28, 2016: The local unit of Al Kharga City and Center in the New Valley Governorate organized a seminar to raise awareness of the dangers of corruption.
• March 29, 2016: A decision was issued by the Presidency to appoint Counselor Hisham Badawi, acting head of the Central Auditing Organization, to succeed Counselor Hisham Geneina, who issued a decision to dismiss him from his post. Until a new president is appointed.

General features of corruption incidents during the month of March 2016:

First: Distribution of corruption incidents according to sectors:

Previous data indicate that the Ministry of Supply had the largest share of corruption incidents during the month of March 2016, with 16 incidents of corruption out of a total of 76 incidents, followed by the local sector with 7 incidents of corruption, after that comes the Ministries of Agriculture and Education with 6 incidents of corruption. This is followed by the Ministry of Interior, 5 incidents, and the Ministry of Finance, 4 incidents, followed by the Ministry of Health, Parliament, Ministry of Investment, Supervisory Agencies, and the Ministry of Justice, with 3 incidents of corruption for each of them, followed by the Ministry of Endowments, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Transport and Trade Unions. The Ministry of Housing and the Ministry of Youth and Sports have two incidents of corruption each, and finally the Ministry of Information, the Prime Ministry, the Presidency Institution, the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources, and the Ministry of Higher Education are ranked last, with only one incident.

 Second: Distribution of corruption incidents according to the position of the case:

Previous data indicate that The incidents under investigation came in first place among corruption incidents during the month of March 2016, as they received the largest percentage, with 59 % out of a total of 76 incidents, while both cases under trial and the incidents that were not investigated were equal to 16%, and finally, the verdicts ranked in the order. The latter increased by %9 of total facts.

 

 Third: The distribution of corruption incidents according to the governorates:

The previous data indicate that Cairo governorate received the largest share of corruption incidents during the month of March 2016 and also due to its absorption of large numbers of the population with 24 incidents of corruption, followed by Giza governorate with 7 incidents of corruption, followed by Alexandria with 5 incidents, followed by Menoufia, Dakahlia, Western and Eastern governorates. With 4 incidents of corruption, followed by Minya, Qena, and New Valley with 3 incidents of corruption, then Assiut, Damietta, Beheira and Sohag came with two incidents for each of them, and finally the Red Sea, Qalyubia, Beni Suef, Ismailia, North Sinai and Kafr El Sheikh Aswan has one incident during the month of March 2016.

Corruption facts during March 2016:

1. A warehouse owner seized 570 cylinders of a stove in the black market in Cairo. (Vito -1 March 2016)
2. Assiut Investigations managed to seize 225 kilos of spoiled ground meat in a pizza restaurant (Vito -1 March 2016)
3. The Administrative Prosecution referred 4 officials from the leaders of the broadcast engineering sector of the Radio and Television Union to trial after it was proven that they had committed grave financial and administrative violations (Vito -2 March 2016)
4. A re-trial of Ahmed Nazif, the former prime minister in the graft case, after his appeal was accepted and his 5-year prison sentence issued by the Criminal Court was canceled (Al-Youm Al-Sabea -2 March 2016).
5. The police secretary of the Amiriya Department was imprisoned for 6 months on a 500-pound bail, on the back of his accusation of shooting a lawyer with his Miri weapon and wounding him in the Nasr City court (Vito -2 March 2016).
6. Renewal of the detention of 6 engineers in the Ministry of Agriculture, 45 days pending investigations, in the new corruption case inside the ministry, on charges of exploiting their positions to facilitate the seizure of state lands (Al Moujram -3 March 2016)
7. The administrative prosecution referred 3 teachers in a secondary school in Mansoura to trial, after it was proven that they had tampered with student admission and exam results. (Vito -3 March 2016)
8. The administrative prosecution referred the head of the local unit of Kafr Saad City and Center for investigation on charges of infringing the decisions of the administrative prosecution to the Supreme Disciplinary Court (Veto - March 5, 2016).
9. The Administrative Prosecution referred 12 officials in the Red Sea Governorate, to urgent trial, on charges of distributing state lands to members of the Local People's Council in Safaga in violation of the law.(Vito -5 March 2016)
10. The Consumer Protection Agency referred the "Ragab Sons" supermarket in Maadi to the prosecution office after seizing quantities of spoiled goods. (Summary - March 5, 2016)
11. The Minister of Interior referred two secretaries of the police in the Beni Suef District to the reserves, on the grounds that some citizens accused them of extortion.) Day 7 - 5 March 2016)
12. The Abu Khalifah Hospital and the Fever in the Great Hill of Ismailia are two blatant examples of tampering and wasting public money, as they cost 51 million and have not been operated until now (Al-Ahram - 5 March 2016)
13. Referral of officials of food commodities sales outlets in the agricultural administration to Ashmoun to the administrative prosecution (Egypt, 24-5 March 2016)
14. The criminal court is completing the trial of businessman Ahmed Ezz and Amr Asal, former head of the Industrial Development Authority, in the case of accusing them of wasting public money in the case of "iron licenses". (Vito - March 6, 2016)
15. A report by the Central Auditing Agency accused the newly elected Council of the Engineering Syndicate in the Western Region of wasting public money (Mubasher Egypt Network - March 6, 2016)
16. The Supply Investigations Department in Qalyubia managed to seize a factory for the production of "meat" without a license, with quantities of spoiled products inside it in Shubra al-Khaimah). Vito - March 6, 2016)
17. Two owners of a refrigerator of meat seized in their possession 6 tons of expired liver and fish in a mediyya (Vito - March 6, 2016).
18. The Governor of Menoufia issued a decision to close the outlets for selling food commodities at the Agricultural Administration in Ashmoun, and transfer their papers to the Administrative Prosecution. (Al-Wafd - March 6, 2016)
19. Imprisonment of a police secretary who took a bribe from a citizen to obtain a driver's license in Al-Sharqiya Traffic Station (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - March 7, 2016)
20. The seizure of 1000 tons of rotten wheat before it was distributed to the Eastern Mills.(Vito - 7 March 2016)
21. Seizing 6 ration cases in a security campaign in North Sinai. (Vito - 7 March 2016)
22. A custodial director was arrested on charges of stealing 4.5 tons of food sugar in Damietta. (Vito - March 9, 2016)
23. An employee of the Hadayek Al-Ahram Traffic Unit was suspended from work, after she was accused of asking a citizen to bribe in exchange for terminating his papers in order to license a car. (Vito - March 9, 2016)
24. The Director General of the General Administration of Housing and Endowments Authority has been referred to trial after it is proven to be involved in the waste of 5 million pounds (Veto - March 10, 2016)
25. The Court of Cassation decided to postpone the appeal submitted by Dr. Amr Al-Shobaki to invalidate the results of the elections for the Dokki and Agouza constituencies, and to rule on the validity of the membership of the winning candidate, Ahmed Mortada Mansour (Al-Dustour - March 10, 2016).
26. A store manager in Dakahlia seized 7.5 tons of subsidized fertilizers, which are prohibited from being traded outside the Development Bank (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - March 11, 2016).
27. Wasting 42 million pounds to build a school in Burullus in Kafr El-Sheikh (Capital Gate - March 11, 2016)
28. Four persons were arrested while they were excavating antiquities inside their workplace in the Shouneh area of the Holding Company for Maritime Transport of the Mina Al-Basal Department in Alexandria. (Vito-12 March 2016)
29. Referral of an expert teacher in Qena to trial for forgery. (Vito -13 March 2016)
30. Tawfiq Okasha is challenging his membership in Parliament against the "veto" (Veto - March 13, 2016).
31. The seizure of a bakery owner in possession of 465 ration cards in Minya (Vito - March 13, 2016)
32. The seizure of 56 tons of rice stored inside Shuna in Mahalla, to be sold after the price hike. (Vito -13 March 2016)
33. Removing encroachments on 600 acres of state property in the New Valley. (Vito -13 March 2016)
34. The administrative prosecution referred the director of an industrial school in Qena governorate and the school's security official to the Supreme Disciplinary Court after it was proven that they had sold the school trees for their own account (Vito - March 14, 2016).
35. The "Who Loves Egypt" campaign revealed with documents about corruption in the financial, administrative and educational sectors, at the Pharaohs Institute for Science and Technology, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Higher Education. (Arrow - March 14, 2016)
36. Two years imprisonment for Hamdi Al-Fakharani, head of the Anti-Corruption Association, on charges of bribery (Al-Arabiya - March 16, 2016)
37. The investigation begins with the president of the Degla Club on charges of seizing member funds and establishing headquarters for the club that are not registered with the Ministry of Youth and Sports (Al-Bawaba News - March 21, 2016).
38. A report issued by the Central Auditing Organization revealed financial corruption in the Emergency Hospital and the Digestive System Hospital, affiliated to Mansoura University, and the seizure of 55 thousand pounds of cash donations provided to them to contribute to helping patients who are unable. (Al-Badil - March 21, 2016)
39. The head of the Nubaria Post Group was arrested on charges of embezzling 5 million pounds. (Al-Bawaba News - March 21, 2016)
40. Renewed imprisonment of the Director of Origin for Export Control on charges of bribery. (Vito - March 21, 2016)
41. Referring the Director General of Cases at Al-Azhar University to the Supreme Disciplinary Court after it is proven that he has committed financial and administrative violations. (Vito - March 22, 2016)
42. The retirement pension of 14 judges belonging to the (Judges for Egypt) movement (Veto - March 22, 2016).
43. 1,100 packages of invalid cosmetics were seized in Matrouh. (News portal - March 22, 2016)
44. The director of the Transport Directorate was arrested in Al-Beheira on charges of bribery (Al-Bawaba News-22 March 2016)
45. A communiqué against the head of the Rasheed racket company for selling the company's property at a low price and accusing him of wasting public money (Akhbar Al-Buhaira - March 22, 2016)
46. The head of the city of Mahalla al-Kubra referred a case of financial corruption in the failure to collect state dues in the amount of 6,000 and 1 million pounds, the value of the rent of the old livestock market in the city of Mahalla, to the Public Prosecution. (Al-Bawaba News - March 22, 2016)
47. Renewal of the detention of the chief engineer of the Housing and Development Bank, and 5 contractors, for 15 days pending investigations, on charges of taking bribes in exchange for tampering with the results of bids. (Vito-22 March 2016)
48. The Public Funds Prosecution decided to release the former Minister of Irrigation on bail of 100,000 pounds for his seizure of state lands. (Brief - 23 March 2016)
49. Detention of 3 engineers in Al-Matariya neighborhood and two police officers for a period of 4 days pending investigation, accusing them of receiving a bribe in exchange for failure to implement a decision to remove a property. (Al-Moujz - March 23, 2016)
50. A bakery owner seized a quarter of a ton of flour supported by Sohag. (Vito - 23 March 2016)
51. The trial of Gamal, Alaa Mubarak and 7 others in the “stock market manipulation” case is postponed to April 20 ((Veto - March 23, 2016))
52. The seizure of 129 kilos of spoiled meat in a butcher shop in Sheikh Zayed. (Vito - 23 March 2016)
53. Seizure of a post office agent in Assiut for seizing pensioners' funds (Vito - March 23, 2016)
54. The employees of Al-Azhar Al-Sharqiya accused the Engineering Department of corruption for accumulating sewage inside the institute after maintaining the pipes. (Echo Country - March 24, 2016)
55. Referral of the Projects and Engineering Industries Company to investigate the report submitted by the Ministry of Higher Education, accusing the company of wasting public money, to the 6th of October Prosecution for jurisdiction (The Journal - March 23, 2016)
56. Referring 8 Sohag Health employees to the Public Prosecution office due to financial irregularities amounting to one million and 750 thousand pounds in the unlawful payment of incentives for workers in the health sector in Batma. (Egypt 24-24 March 2016)
57. Excluding the Director General of the Educational Administration in the tenth of Ramadan for accusing him of committing corruption offenses. (Al-Ummah News - March 25, 2016)
58. Editing transcripts contrary to disposition on 6 thousand accurate cell phones supported by Amiriya and Al-Ajami (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - 25 March 2016)
59. A postal assistant was arrested in Qena, accused of embezzling 21,000 pounds (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - March 25, 2016).
60. The owner of a warehouse was seized for selling 423 cylinders of a cooker in the black market in Cairo (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - March 26, 2016)
61. The Alexandria Criminal Court has sentenced the former State Security officer accused in the murder of Mr. Bilal, 3 years with work, to imprisonment (Al-Youm Al-Sabe - 27 March 2016).
62. A judicial source at the Administrative Prosecution Authority stated that there is financial and administrative corruption in the Administrative Prosecution Authority during the withdrawal of appointment files, amounting to 18 million and 750 thousand pounds (Al-Bawaba News - 27 March 2016).
63. The railway project linking the cities of Sadat and Menouf, which was established 5 years ago, was suspended after spending 300 million pounds, which is a waste of public money. (Al-Ahram - March 27, 2016)
64. The House of Representatives takes punitive measures against some members for wasting public money worth 200,000 EGP represented in booking flights and setting up hotels while visiting border areas (Al-Khobar - March 27, 2016).
65. The incident of wasting public money in the New Valley Governorate is the establishment of a garbage recycling plant that cost 6 million pounds to construct, then neglected and stopped working (Al-Tahrir - 27 March 2016).
66. A communiqué accusing the Ministry of Education in Aswan of wasting public money because of an educational board in the school whose value was recorded in the notebooks of 183 thousand pounds, noting that its real value is 10 thousand pounds. (Constitution - March 27, 2016)
67. The seizure of 2 tons and 625 kilos of agricultural pesticides and 4 thousand packages of unknown and fraudulent pesticides inside a factory without a license to deceive agricultural pesticides in the center of Tanta. (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - 28 March 2016)
68. Minya residents suffer from deteriorating infrastructure and mixing of sewage with drinking water, which led to the spread of diseases among the people (Al-Wafd - 28 March 2016)
69. The lawyer of a candidate for the Bar Association sub-election for the seat in Bandar Al-Minya accused the governorate bar association of wasting 300,000 pounds of public money (Masr Al-Arabiya - March 28, 2016)
70. The owner of a municipal bakery seized 37 tons of flour and sold it to the black market in Manshiyet Nasser (Vito - March 29, 2016).
71. The Director General of Ads in Giza Governorate has been imprisoned for 45 days pending investigations, on charges of taking bribes and exploiting influence (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - March 29, 2016).
72. The control authorities in the New Valley are investigating the incident of wasting public money in the New Valley Endowments Directorate and the Egyptian Endowments Authority regarding the closure of 50 housing units belonging to the endowment loan abroad without benefiting from them for 3 years. (Day 7 - March 30, 2016)
73. Ismailia Supply Investigations managed to seize 2.5 tons of edible oil of unknown origin before it was sold in the market. (Dawn - 30 March 2016)
74. He uncovered an incident of corruption in the engineering department at the Ministry of Supply, after 9 cars belonging to the ministry were scrapped and offered at unreal prices for the benefit of certain people in the absence of internal oversight of the ministry. (Vito - 30 March 2016)
75. The Cairo Misdemeanor Court rejected the criminal and civil lawsuits filed against Counselor Hisham Geneina, accusing him of wasting public money. (Delegation - March 31, 2016)
76. Journalist Mohamed Moussa revealed documents of financial corruption, worth 13 million pounds, at the Ministry of Youth and Sports. (Al-Bawaba News - March 31, 2016)