Partners for Transparency Association (PFT) issued its sixth report within the framework of the “Corruption Status Book” series, which focuses on monitoring and analyzing legislative and procedural developments related to combating corruption, as well as counting the facts that were addressed by various media during the month of December 2015.

The report detected 87 corruption incidents during the month of December, a slight decrease from the last month (November 2015), which witnessed 90 incidents, with the catering sector continuing to be at the top of the list with 22 incidents of corruption that were uncovered, followed immediately by the localities, health, and education.

With regard to the judicial position of the detected facts, the report revealed that the facts under investigation came first among the corruption incidents during the month of December 2015 with a score of 56 incidents, followed by the incidents that were not investigated with a score of 17 incidents, after that the facts under trial come with 10 incidents, and finally , The incidents that have been judged come last, with only 4 incidents.

In a parallel context, the report revealed the continued absence of legislative measures against corruption, with the continuation of the positive statements of a number of officials, in addition to the activities and events of a training or awareness nature that were monitored by a number of the administrative apparatus units of the Egyptian state.

It is worth noting that the Partners for Transparency Foundation (PFT) is a non-governmental organization, declared in accordance with the provisions of Egyptian law, that takes into account independence and neutrality “politically” and “ideologically”. The Foundation works within the framework of helping society to consolidate and implement the values and practices of integrity, transparency, accountability, and access To achieve comprehensive “human” development and respect for human rights, and to build a system of good governance, based in its work on an intellectual and legal framework closely related to the international system for the protection of human rights, the axioms of social development, and the standards of good governance.