Corruption Status Book

The fourteenth report “August 2016”

83 corruption incidents occurred in August

Corruption in the supply of wheat overthrows the second minister in the era of Sisi

Introduction:

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 fourteenth report issued by the institution, which focuses on monitoring and analyzing legislative and procedural developments related to combating corruption, as well as an inventory and analysis of facts Reported by various media during the month of August 2016.

Legislative and procedural developments to combat corruption during August 2016:

The month of August witnessed the discovery of the largest corruption case in the wheat silos, as the fact-finding committee formed by Parliament estimated the amount of wheat supplied as a fake supply of approximately 2 million tons, which is equivalent to approximately 5.6 billion pounds, and accordingly the resignation of the former Minister of Supply Khaled Hanafi was accepted. Several communications have been submitted against him to the Attorney General accusing him of wasting public money, and a group of officials in the Ministries of Supply and Agriculture and the Exports and Imports Authority and employees of the silos company are also being investigated. The month also witnessed the issuance of two Republican decisions, the first appointing counselor Hisham Badawi as head of the Central Auditing Organization with a ministerial rank for a period of 4 years, and the other considering The recommendations of the State Land Restoration Committee headed by Ibrahim Mahlab, Assistant President of the Republic are binding on all government agencies with jurisdiction over the lands, regarding the legalization of previous problems and difficulties in the field of land, which was published in the Official Gazette No. 378 of 2016, and the month also witnessed several seminars and training courses for awareness With regard to combating corruption within government agencies, the following is a review of what was monitored in this regard during the month of August 2016: -

• August 2, 2016: The Minister of Trade and Industry, during his meeting with the Fact-Finding Committee for the supply of wheat, explained that the ministry enters through the General Organization for Export and Import Control and Quality Supervision only. He also stressed that the goal of the government and the committee is one, which is to eliminate corruption.
• August 3, 2016: Counselor Adel Al-Saeed, Assistant Minister of Justice for the Illicit Gain Authority, announced during a press conference the official completion of reconciliation with businessman Hussein Salem, who is outside Egypt, and this came in exchange for their assignment of 21 assets owned by them in favor of the Egyptian state with a value of 5 billion 341 million and 850 Alpha and 50 pounds.
• August 8, 2016: MP Magdy Malak, head of the wheat corruption fact-finding committee in the House of Representatives, confirmed that corruption in silos belongs to the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Supply, and the Quartet formed to take over, calling on the Attorney General to preserve the Egyptian state and preserve the people's right.
• August 9, 2016: One of the leaders of the regulatory agencies said that some were huge and dealt with corruption in the regulatory authorities as if they were a "bugaboo" that no one could confront, stressing that corruption exists in all countries, but they face it easily through a modern system and good management, as they confirmed that Egypt suffers from a lot of corruption. We should think about the treatment instead of exaggerating it, pointing out that the localities are full of corruption, but the corruption is caused by a misfortune in the way of management and not in the employees.
• August 9, 2016: President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi issued a presidential decree appointing Counselor Hisham Badawi as head of the Central Auditing Organization with the rank of minister for a period of 4 years, starting from August 7, 2016, according to what was published in the Official Gazette.
• August 9, 2016: The Parliament's Industry Committee held a meeting in the presence of Minister of Petroleum Tariq Al-Mulla, and the minister declared that "localities are an essential part of disrupting the utilization of the wealth of mines and quarries, in addition to complications due to the old regulations, and that a new regulation for the mining sector has been approved by the Council of Ministers, pledging to make progress in the mining sector."
• August 10, 2016: Dr. Ahmed Emad, Minister of Health, declared during his meeting with the media, Khaled Salah, “There is no corruption in hospitals, but there is poor service. He also praised the ambulance system that is comparable to the International Ambulance Authority, which is thanks to the former Minister“ Hatem Al-Jabali ” .
• August 10, 2016: The Minister of Supply, Khaled Hanafi, said after the deputies presented 5 inquiries to the government about corruption in the supply of wheat and demanded that the Minister of Supply be brought to a speedy trial, saying, “The main reason for this issue is the corruption of the system, as a proposal was submitted to the Prime Minister in August to change the wheat system and separate the price component from the subsidy component until Parliament came and rejected that new system.
• August 11, 2016: Major General Majid Abdel Karim, Secretary General of Assiut Governorate, inaugurated the activities of the second group of training courses organized by the Decentralization Support Unit at the Governorate General Office under the title “Spreading the Values of Integrity and Transparency and Awareness of the Dangers of Corruption and Ways to Prevent It” for workers in the local units of centers, cities, neighborhoods, and service directorates at the governorate level.
• August 11, 2016: Dr. Nassif Al-Hefnawy, First Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Qalyubia, confirmed the formation of a committee specialized in combating corruption within the health directorate in the governorate to detect and combat corruption and neglect, headed by Dr. Muhammad Farhat, director of the infection control department in the directorate.
• August 13, 2016The Higher Public Funds Prosecutor headed by Counselor Ahmed Al-Bahrawy decided to quickly seize and bring in a number of officials from the Ministries of Supply and Agriculture and the Exports and Imports Authority, and the workers of the silos company, against the background of their accusation of seizing funds from local wheat supplies.
• August 13, 2016 The Public Prosecutor, Counselor, Nabil Sadiq, ordered the imprisonment of 13 defendants for a period of 15 days pending investigations in the case known in the media as the corruption of wheat. The Supreme Public Funds Prosecution office has assigned the accused to the crimes of facilitating the appropriation of public money, self-profit, profit for others, and forgery.
• August 15, 2016: Dr. Ahmed Abu Al-Yazid, head of the services sector and an observer at the Ministry of Agriculture, confirmed that the development bank of the Ministry of Agriculture did not discover any transgressions or corruption in it, indicating that all corruption in the shawns of the private sector selected by the Ministry of Supply and rejected by agriculture, which was not included in the ministerial decision to deliver wheat. These facts are for the House of Representatives.
• August 16, 2016: Attorney Muhammad al-Kumi submitted two briefing requests against the ministers of “Education” and “Housing” due to the waste of public money. The first application filed against Dr. Al-Hilali Al-Sherbini, Minister of Education, included that the Educational Buildings Authority has received a large number of state property lands in order to establish a number of schools on it, since The January Revolution has not yet been implemented, and the second application submitted against the Minister of Housing came due to a feasibility study that cost 22 million pounds, which the ministry carried out in 2010 in cooperation with the Agricultural Authority to establish a complex for Arabian horse stations on an area of 340 acres, and it has yet to be implemented.
• August 16, 2016: Atef Abdel-Jawad, a member of Parliament, demanded that the Ministry of Local Development be canceled if it did not confront corruption and reveal the corrupt in the local units and bring them to trial, adding that the localities have become a symbol of corruption, adding: “There is no need for corruption without localities, and the Ministry of Supply and the Ministry of Supply do not know corruption. It is all in the two ministries. ”
• August 16, 2016: Representative Nabil Abu Basha, a member of the House of Representatives Transport Committee, said that the government does not have a clear plan to stop the loss of the Railways Authority’s losses. Abu Basha added that there is a great suspicion of corruption within the Railways Authority, and these foci must be exposed and work to reform them, explaining that the Transportation Committee In Parliament, the Commission has requested to develop its plans to prevent losses, but the one you call has no life.
• August 17, 2016: An official source at the “Stolen State Land Retrieval Committee” headed by Eng. Ibrahim Mehleb, Assistant President of the Republic for National Projects, revealed that the Public Funds Prosecution has begun its investigations into the reports submitted by the committee against companies that are reluctant to pay state dues on the "Egypt-Alexandria Desert" road who transferred agricultural lands to tourist resorts. Palaces, villas, and golf courses. He also stressed that the committee would open the files of "Ahmed Orabi Association."
• August 17, 2016: Majdi Malak, head of the “wheat corruption” fact-finding committee in the House of Representatives, said that the withdrawal of confidence from Dr. Khaled Hanafi, Minister of Supply and Internal Trade, is a parliamentary matter that has nothing to do with the government, adding that the committee did not wait for the Minister of Supply but rather is doing its job in uncovering the facts.
• August 18, 2016: The Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, visited Counselor Ali Rizk, Chairman of the Administrative Prosecution Authority, to congratulate him on the new position, and praised the role of the Administrative Prosecution Authority in achieving justice and functional discipline in the state’s administrative apparatus, appreciating its efforts in combating financial and administrative corruption that the state faces with all its national institutions.
• August 19, 2016: MP Medhat Al-Sharif stated, "We did not expect this amount of corruption and we asked the" Engineering Authority "and the" Administrative Control "for proposals to block the sources of corruption. He also stressed that Parliament needed to form a specialized committee on fighting corruption, and also the necessity for all institutions to come together. The state is with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to fight corruption and the corrupt. He also accused the Minister of Supply of political responsibility in the corruption of the wheat system, and criticized the minister's reconciliation with the corrupt.
• August 20, 2016: Dr. Ibrahim Al-Tadawi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education in Damietta, held a meeting for the Subcommittee on Anti-Corruption to follow up on the implementation of the committee’s tasks in Damietta Governorate, in the presence of the committee’s leaders. .
• August 20, 2016: The spokesperson for the Ministry of Supply denied the rumors about the Minister of Supply staying at a luxury hotel at a cost of 7 million pounds, and explained that this is completely untrue and that the ministry does not bear the residency of expatriate ministers and does not provide them with housing or housing allowances.
• August 20, 2016: Engineer Ismail Abul-Ezz, head of the Egyptian Holding Company for Airports and Air Navigation, announced the formation of an anti-corruption committee to eliminate corruption and favoritism within the holding company and its affiliates.
• August 22, 2016: Deputy Minister of Planning for Follow-up, Dr. Nihal Mogharbel, confirmed that the sustainable development strategy, Egypt Vision 2030 is a long-term action plan from 2016 to 2030, as Egypt will be among the top 30 countries in the world in terms of size of the economy, human development, quality of life, market competitiveness, and fighting corruption. Fighting corruption is one of the most important goals that will be worked on in the Egypt 2030 plan, stressing that we suffer from structural problems that need a long time to solve.
• August 22, 2016: Counselor Ali Rizk, head of the Administrative Prosecution Authority, revealed that the government has amended the terms of reference and functions of the Administrative Prosecution Authority, by Law No. 18 of 2015 concerning the civil service by increasing these functions to control the state’s administrative apparatus and monitor employees, as he added that both Article (57, 62) have been amended. ).
• August 24, 2016: The Arab Organization for Administrative Development is holding a conference in its Cairo branch, in the presence of the organization’s president, Dr. Nasser Al-Qahtani, the head of the Governance Center, Dr. Ghada Moussa, and representatives from the United Nations Office of Combating Terrorism and Crime, entitled “Incorporating international anti-corruption foundations into the work of the public administration.”
• August 24, 2016: Parliamentarian Medhat al-Sharif, Undersecretary of the Economic Committee in the House of Representatives, confirmed that the report of the fact-finding committee on the "fake supply of wheat", which is to be presented to the parliament within hours (it was already presented before the report was issued) carries many surprises that may lead to the withdrawal of confidence from the Minister of Supply or any measure. Supervisory forces of MPs against the government.
• August 24, 2016: Dr. Al-Hilali Al-Sherbini, Minister of Education and Technical Education, said that within 10 months of assuming the ministerial era, 800 cases of corruption in the ministry were referred to the Public and Administrative Prosecution, stressing that corruption, no matter how big, will be controlled.
• August 25, 2016: Dr. Khaled Hanafi, Minister of Supply, actually submitted his resignation on the sidelines of the cabinet meeting, on the back of what the fact-finding report revealed about his involvement in the wheat corruption case.
• August 25, 2016: The report of the fact-finding committee on the subject of corruption and the mafia of manipulating wheat supplies and wasting public money for the benefit of wheat importers recommended the need to protect all whistleblowers and witnesses who cooperated with the commission from job abuse against them, as well as protect all those who testified by law enforcement agencies and stressed the need to take legal measures What is necessary is to subject the companies operating the bread dispensing program “Smart, Effit First” to the supervision of the competent regulatory agencies such as the Central Auditing Agency.
• August 25, 2016: Dr. Nashwa al-Deeb, a member of the Parliament’s Media Committee, considered the corruption of the treatment project to be a “real disaster” in the media, saying: “An emergency meeting of the committee must be held to look into this matter and to identify all the reasons surrounding the corruption incident and to summon the union officials if the situation calls for it.” .
• August 25, 2016: The National Anti-Corruption Center concluded the activities of the training course “Methods and Mechanisms for Protecting Public Funds” in the presence of a number of ministers, advisors, public figures and some members of Parliament.
• August 27, 2016: Counselor Adel Al-Saeed, Head of the Illicit Gain Authority, assigned a number of heads of the examination and investigation commission to examine the request submitted by Sami Mahran, the former Secretary-General of the People's Assembly, to reconcile after his trial, which proved from the trial that it permits reconciliation with the graft and study of the funds to be reconciled with it, and that To take conciliation measures, and to know the extent of the seriousness of the accused or not.
• August 27, 2016: MP Magdy Malak, head of the wheat corruption fact-finding committee, said during his TV interview with the media / Wael Al-Ibrashi that the committee's report before President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, moment by moment since the committee's work, added that the criminal accountability of the Minister of Supply is under the order of the Attorney General, who decides to refer it or not, explaining that The reports that were submitted to the sovereign authorities condemn the former Minister of Supply, and the head of the Wheat Corruption Fact-Finding Commission confirmed that a group of monopolists were being counted on the fingers of one hand and monopolizing all silos.
• August 28, 2016: Magdy Malak, head of the truth commission on wheat corruption, confirmed that the aim of the commission's report was not the resigned Minister of Supply Khaled Hanafi, as he mentioned in his speech, that there were personal interests behind his resignation, but the goal of everyone was reform and eliminating corruption, as he emphasized that the Minister of Supply is the second minister to be completed She dismissed him after the Minister of Agriculture, who was also involved in corruption cases, and indicated that what happened with Khaled Hanafi is the political will of the President of the Republic and the government to submit to the street and appreciation for Parliament.
• August 29, 2016: The Wheat Corruption Fact-Finding Committee submitted a report to the Chairman of the Council, where it held the political responsibility for corruption on the resigned Minister of Supply Dr. Khaled Hanafi. Malak pointed out that the legal responsibility is borne by the Ministry of Supply in addition to the public employees in the ministries of “Supply - Agriculture - Trade and Industry”, as well as the two silos companies The two branches of the Ministry of Supply and the owners of supply sites in the private sector, and the Chairman of the Council decided to refer the documents to the Attorney General.
• August 29, 2016: Attorney General Nabil Sadiq said in a statement, “The Swiss Federal Supreme Court decided to accept the appeal of the Egyptian National Committee to recover funds and assets abroad and resume investigations regarding the freezing of smuggled funds.” The Swiss authorities had previously decided to preserve investigations, but the Egyptian National Committee headed by the Attorney General decided to appeal On its decision to save the investigations.
• August 31, 2016: President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi issued a presidential decree, which was published in the Official Gazette No. 378 of 2016, considering the recommendations of the State Land Restitution Committee headed by Ibrahim Mehleb, Assistant to the President of the Republic, binding on all government agencies with jurisdiction over the lands, with regard to legalizing previous problems and difficulties in the field of land, and he said Mehleb said that the republican decision gave the committee full powers in collecting the amounts owed to the state for the actions that were issued before its formation on February 9th, whether in return for adjusting conditions or modifying the type of activity. The decision also gave the committee the right to take legal measures against those failing to pay the state's dues, starting from removal and administrative seizure until referring them to the public funds investigation or tax evasion and graft.
• August 31, 2016:Parliamentarian Dr. Ali Al-Kayyal, a member of the Fact-Finding Committee on Wheat Corruption, referred to the involvement of workers in the regulatory agencies in the issue of wheat corruption and explained that when the fact-finding committee visited a site, the documents related to the silos were hidden.

 

General features of corruption incidents during August 2016:

First: Distribution of corruption incidents according to sectors:

 

Previous data indicates The Ministry of Supply achieved the largest share of corruption incidents during the month of August 2016 with a score of 17 corruption incidents out of a total of 83 incidents, followed by the Ministry of Agriculture with 10 incidents of corruption, after that comes the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology with a score of 9 incidents of corruption, followed by the Ministry of Interior with a score of 8 incidents. The localities sector with 7 incidents, followed by the Ministry of Education and Investment with 5 incidents of corruption for each of them, and then comes the Ministry of Housing with 3 incidents of corruption, and then comes the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Higher Education and unions with a balance Two corruption incidents for each of them, and finally, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Social Solidarity, the Ministry of Petroleum, the Ministry of Endowments, the Ministry of Information, the Radio and Television Authority, the Economic Commission, the Supervisory Agencies and Parliament have a balance of only one corruption incident for each of them.

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 August 2016, as it received the largest percentage of 78% out of a total of 83 incidents, followed by the incidents that were judged by 10 %, then the incidents under trial came at a rate of 8 %, and finally came the incidents that were not investigated in Ranked last with 4 % of total facts.

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

 

Previous data indicates Cairo governorate still gets the largest share of corruption incidents during the month of August 2016 due to the geographical distribution of 24 incidents of corruption, followed by Giza governorate with 13 corruption incidents, followed by the governorates of Sharkia and Qena with 6 incidents for each of them, then both governorates of Alexandria And Beheira with 4 incidents for each of them, and Sohag governorate recorded 3 incidents of corruption, followed by each of the Red Sea, Gharbia, Qalyubia, Minya, Assiut and Bani Sweif governorates with two incidents for each of them, and finally, Dakahlia, Suez, Menoufia, New Valley and Aswan governorate were recorded. Port Said, South Sinai, Damietta, North Sinai, Kafr El Sheikh and Marsa Matrouh were one incident during the month of August 2016.

Corruption facts during August 2016:

1. Referral of the former Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education to the Supreme Disciplinary Court after being found guilty of violating the law, breaking the duty of duty and committing financial and administrative offenses (Veto - 1 August 2016).
2. The Abdeen Misdemeanor Court renewed the detention of a report in the Qasr al-Nil District for 15 days pending investigations, in fact, he was accused of seizing public money through his seizure of the financial fines of the accused and the judicial proceeds for himself (Vito -1 August 2016)
3. Eastern security forces were able to remove 21 cases of encroachment on agricultural lands (Vito - 1 August 2016)
4. A station manager seized 250,000 liters of petroleum products in Al-Amraniyah (Vito - 2 August 2016)
5. Arresting a police sergeant from Sohag Traffic and a broker visiting driver's license forms in exchange for money (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - 2 August 2016)
6. The 17 Giza Criminal Court ordered to postpone the hearing of the second session of the Ministry of Agriculture bribery case to the next October 3 session, to hear the first and second evidence witnesses again (Vito - 2 August 2016)
7. Seizing a bakery owner who seized subsidies from 30 ration cards (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - August 3, 2016).
8. The Supreme Disciplinary Court has ruled to punish a general manager of the Holding Company for Spinning and Weaving on trial after his accusation of embezzlement and forgery was proven in official documents (Vito -3 August 2016)
9. Representative Ghada Saqr filed a complaint with the Attorney General against Dr.Ramadan Abdel Hamid Muhammad Al-Tantawi, President of Damietta University in his capacity and person, regarding the waste of public money in the Damietta University building project in its various stages (Sada Al-Balad 3 August 2016)
10. The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education in Suez submitted a report to the Public Funds Investigation Department and the Public Prosecution and Administrative Control in Suez stating that there were serious financial irregularities in the treasury of the North Suez Educational Administration. (Arab Egypt - 4 August 2016)
11. Representative Alaa Wali submitted an urgent notification request to the Speaker of Parliament addressed to Eng. Mustafa Madbouly, Minister of Housing, regarding the confusion and administrative negligence in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Communities that marred the process of allocating 10 plots of land with an area of 10 acres to a Saudi female client. (Veto - August 5, 2016)
12. Deputy Sherifnadi submitted several briefing requests to the House of Representatives to direct them to the Minister of Local Development regarding wasting public funds in Minya Governorate.(aFor Citizen - August 6, 2016)
13. Deputy Dr. Mohamed Fouad and 19 other deputies submitted a request to form a fact-finding committee to examine the activities of the Fund for Funding Activities and Projects of the Egyptian Opera House at the General Authority of the National Cultural Center, in order to find out the authority of the disbursement, the financial position of the fund and its final account, after wasting more than 18.4 million pounds on rewards and favors from Fund money.( Parliament portal - August 7, 2016)
14. Removing 17 encroachment cases on agricultural lands in Al Sharqiya. (Vito - August 9, 2016)
15. The Administrative Prosecution Authority referred 4 officials of the Egyptian Company for Mining Resources to the Supreme Disciplinary Court, due to their gross financial and administrative violations while they were setting the mining value for the production and marketing of phosphate ore and manipulating the awarding of bids in violation of the law. (The Journal - August 8, 2016)
16. The Nuzha Prosecutor listened to the statements of a police officer at Cairo Airport regarding the arrest of two police officers on charges of receiving a bribe from the director of one of Saudi Arabia's airlines in exchange for smuggling “deer” into two bags from Cairo airport (Al-Bawaba News - 8 August 2016).
17. The Supreme Disciplinary Court ruled to punish the former head of the Dar es Salaam neighborhood and 7 of his assistants after it was proved that they had tampered with the implementation of the removal decisions. (Vito - 8 August 2016)
18. The manager of a warehouse of a cooker seized the sale of subsidized cylinders on the black market in Giza (Al-Bawaba News - August 8, 2016)
19. 4 employees seized 150 thousand pounds from the post office in papers. (Vito - August 9, 2016)
20. A petrol station owner was seized for smuggling 4 million liters of solar energy in New Cairo. (Vito - August 9, 2016)
21. Detecting a post office agent in Al-Sharqia for embezzling pension funds. (Vito - August 9, 2016)
22. 4 accused of tax officials in the Free Professions Administration, and Nader Khouzam, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the "Khuzam" Group for Real Estate Valuation, were imprisoned for 4 days pending investigation, accusing them of receiving and taking a bribe of 50 thousand pounds. (Vito - 9 August 2016)
23. Magdy Malak, a member of the Parliament's Agriculture Committee, said that he had documents stating that some employees of the Reconstruction and Agricultural Development Authority took 2,000 pounds in bribes in exchange for releasing fraudulent contracts to some farmers in order to legalize their situation (Vito - 9 August 2016).
24. The Administrative Control is conducting an investigation into the funds disbursed by the Illicit Profit Authority, in contracting with an international law firm in London to file lawsuits to recover the smuggled funds, as the documents indicated the payment of 37 million to contract with a law firm in London (Al-Bawaba News - 10 August 2016)
25. Referring officials of El-Arish Educational Administration to the Supreme Disciplinary Court for accusing them of committing grave financial and administrative violations (Veto - August 10, 2016)
26. The head of a supply office in Old Cairo and another arrested for seizing support funds (Vito - August 10, 2016)
27. Postal employees seized for embezzling 45,000 pounds from the account of a client in Cairo.(Vito - August 10, 2016)
28. The Supreme Disciplinary Court ruled that 7 officials of the Social Affairs Directorate in Al-Gharbia Governorate were charged with trial after they were proven to have committed grave financial and administrative violations (Veto - August 10, 2016).
29. Referring 4 officials of the local unit of the Kerdasa Center and City to the Supreme Disciplinary Court for trial for their manipulation in the process of supplying garbage bins and wasting public money. (Veto - August 11, 2016)
30. The arrest of two police officers leading a gang formation to kidnap citizens in Alexandria in exchange for money (Sada al-Balad - August 12, 2016).
31. Seizure of a postal associate in Dakahlia seized 30,000 customer accounts (Vito - 12 August 2016)
32. Implementation of 32 decrees to remove encroachments on agricultural lands in Qena (Vito - 12 August 2016)
33. The seizure of 11 tons of agricultural fertilizers that are prohibited to be sold in the lake (Sada Al-Balad - August 12, 2016)
34. The head of the Administrative Prosecution Authority ordered an extensive investigation into the incident of wasting 9 thousand tons of wheat, valued at 250 million pounds, in the Sharkia governorate. (Parliament - 12 August 2016)
35. A supply worker was imprisoned for 24 hours, accused of wasting a million and a half pounds of public money in papers.
36. A warehouse manager seized the disposal of 60 subsidized gas cylinders in the lake. (Al-Bawaba News - 14 August 2016)
37. Wasting 80 million pounds of public money in Alexandria Container Handling Company. (Statement - August 15, 2016)
38. Referral of 6 officials of an agricultural school in Qena to the Supreme Disciplinary Court after it was proven that they committed grave financial and administrative violations (Veto - 15 August 2016)
39. The Governor of Port Said uncovered an incident of corruption within the Governorate’s General Court, in respect of which he issued a decision to cancel the competition for appointing 40 young men and women to the Bureau for temporary contracts and decided to relieve the director of the governorate’s electronic portal from her position and assign Brigadier General Ibrahim Azab, Director of the Information Center temporarily. (Al-Wafd - August 15, 2016)
40. An employee at the Bab al-Sharia supply office and the owner of a food outlet was imprisoned for 4 days pending investigations, accusing them of seizing 1.7 million pounds of support money (Al-Bawaba News-16 August 2016)
41. The arrest of an employee at the ostrich post office in Ain Shams for embezzling 90,000 EGP from a savings book account. (News portal - August 16, 2016)
42. Seizing a post office employee in Menoufia who embezzled sums of money from clients' accounts (Vito - August 16, 2016)
43. The Supreme Disciplinary Court ruled to punish officials in one of the local units of the center and city of “Abu Qurqas” in Minya, after it was proven that they facilitated construction on agricultural land (Vito - 17 August 2016).
44. Referral of 4 officials of the Red Sea Al-Azhar region to trial for having tampered with the formation of the Al-Azhar and Public Certificate Committees (Vito - August 17, 2016)
45. A commission from the Public Funds Investigation Department stormed the office of Dr. Ashraf Sami, Vice President of Agricultural Quarantine, to search for files and papers related to the soybean deal infected with the toxic "ambrosia" cannabis after it was rejected twice and approved the third time. (Al-Bawaba News - 17 August 2016)
46. Mohamed Zain, a member of the Parliament’s Transportation Committee, said that he would submit a briefing request to Dr. Ali Abdel-Al, Speaker of Parliament, addressed to Minister of Supply Khaled Hanafi due to the system of corruption in the supply of rice within the Supply Commodities Authority, which is estimated at 2 billion pounds. (Parliamentary - August 17, 2016)
47. The Head of the South Assiut Prosecution Office ordered the summons of the law faculty officials at Assiut University and the college seals after the Administrative Control Authority revealed that 2 of the Social Solidarity employees at the Badari Center had forged papers and certificates to assist 274 citizens from the center to unlawfully disburse the social solidarity pension, and the value of the sums that were disbursed to them during the months was The past 800 thousand pounds (Al-Bawaba News - 18 August 2016)
48. The Administrative Control Authority seized the head of the New Valley Reconstruction Authority while receiving a bribe from a contractor, amounting to 320 thousand pounds. (Al-Fajr-18 August 2016)
49. A postal teller was seized for embezzling 225,000 EGP from clients' accounts in October. (Vito - August 19, 2016)
50. The Supreme Disciplinary Court ruled to punish the Director General of Urban Planning in Kafr El Sheikh Governorate and one of his assistants after it was proven that they committed grave financial and administrative violations and tampered with issuing building permits. (Vito - 20 August 2016)
51. Referral of the General Director of the Legal Department of the Veterinary Company of the Holding Company for Biological Preparations and Vaccines to the Supreme Disciplinary Court, for committing grave financial and administrative violations. (Veto - 20 August 2016)
52. Referral of 3 police secretaries at Giza Traffic for bribes to facilitate the issuance of car licenses (Al Youm Al Sabea - 20 August 2016)
53. Sources within the Journalists Syndicate revealed financial irregularities in the financial system for the treatment project of the Syndicate, and there are documents confirming the involvement of employees in the matter and that these embezzlements have been tightly carried out for years. (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - 20 August 2016)
54. The Consumer Protection Agency referred 3 real estate companies to the Public Prosecution for their failure to implement the agency’s decision to refund the value of the sums paid by consumers to buy chalets on a time-sharing system without those companies obtaining licenses to practice their activities from the Ministry of Tourism. (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - 20 August 2016)
55. Seizing a bank employee who seized 2.5 million clients' accounts (Al-Bawaba News - August 21, 2016)
56. The first public attorney of the Public Funds Prosecution decided to summon all the officials in the wheat receiving committees of the Ministry of Supply and workers in wheat silos for urgent investigation to hear their statements regarding the accusations against them of tampering with the quantities of wheat. (Al-Bawaba News - 21 August 2016)
57. The General Attorney for Aswan Public Prosecutions referred 6 employees of the Aswan Security Directorate to the Criminal Court after their involvement in the fraud of checks for the purpose of seizing public money (Al-Bawaba News-21 August 2016)
58. The real estate registry employee in Mahmoudia was caught while receiving a bribe to facilitate the procedures for registering a plot of land for a beneficiary in violation of the law. (Vito - August 22, 2016)
59. The Journalists Syndicate decided to form a committee to investigate the incidents of wasting public money after the appearance of a suspicion of corruption in the technology allowances. The sources indicated that the Syndicate will investigate the disbursement of allowances to some journalists who work abroad and are separated with newspapers. (Echo Country - August 22, 2016)
60. Seizure of a post office aide who seized a client's pension in Qalyubia (Vito - 23 August 2016)
61. The custodian of a consumer complex, the owners of a grocery store, and a food company were arrested for seizing 2 tons of foodstuff sugar in Al-Marj in preparation for selling it on the black market, and a report on the incident was released (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - 23 August 2016).
62. A post office agent embezzles 979,000 pounds from pensioners in Sharkia (Vito - 23 August 2016)
63. Wasting 1.8 million pounds on the resorts of the Rasheed Petroleum Company employees and renting a villa to the Chairman of the Board of Directors and his guests with 260 thousand pounds for a period of 45 days. (Accidents - 23 August 2016)
64. The Supreme Disciplinary Court ruled to punish the head of the Central Department of Production Services at the Radio and Television Union "Maspero" after it was proven that she committed grave financial and administrative irregularities and facilitated the seizure of the Union's funds with a fine equivalent to three times the basic wage that she was receiving per month at the end of her service. (News portal - 23 August 2016)
65. An employee of the Traffic Department in Qena was caught using his position to obtain violating licenses in exchange for money (Al-Bawaba News - 23 August 2016).
66. Referral of the head of the Old Cairo neighborhood to the Supreme Disciplinary Court for committing grave financial and administrative violations (Veto - August 24, 2016)
67. The Supreme Disciplinary Court ruled to punish the vice president of the National Postal Authority after it was proven that he committed gross financial and administrative violations during his tenure as secretary of the Environmental Protection Fund. (Veto - August 24, 2016)
68. MP Sameh Fathi Habib submitted an urgent notification request to the Minister of Health, in which he disclosed that "the government wasted 18 million pounds after establishing Sadr Hospital in Basyoun 3 years ago and not equipped it yet, which led to the building becoming a ghost house," he said. (Al-Masry Al-Youm - 24 August 2016)
69. Removing 31 cases of encroachment on agricultural lands in Sharkia Governorate (Vito - 25 August 2016).
70. Counselor Ali Rizk referred the head of the Administrative Prosecution Authority to refer the incident, which was published in one of the newspapers under the title “A government scandal in Wadi Al-Mahashi,” to the Investment Cases Unit, for the latter's competence to examine and investigate complaints related to investors against specialists in the authorities when it concerns investment projects or the application of the provisions of the Investment Guarantees and Incentives Act. Delegation - 26 August 2016)
71. The head of the roads department of Nida Village Council and an organization technician were arrested on charges of forgery in official documents for connecting facilities to violating real estate (Al-Wafd - 26 August 2016)
72. The Administrative Prosecution referred the presenter, Azza Al-Hinnawi, director and author of the “Cairo News” program on Egyptian television, to disciplinary trial after it was proven that the former insulted the head of state during a live broadcast program (Veto - 27 August 2016)
73. The eleventh Appeals Examination Department of the Supreme Administrative Court has decided to accept the appeal filed by the State Litigation Authority, represented by the government, against the first-degree ruling that allocates 102 feddans to the Teachers ’Syndicate in the Dabaa nuclear project and the judiciary again to recover the entire land for the state, valued at 5 billion pounds. (Veto-27 August 2016 )
74. A report was submitted to the Attorney General requesting investigation with officials of the General Company of Silos because of its refusal to receive proposals whose value exceeded 35 million pounds stored in the “Banaker” of the New Testament silo, and their refusal to prove that a number of silos had broken down, which prompted his client to store them in the “banks” until the silos were repaired. (Al-Bawaba News - 27 August 2016)
75. The security services in Qena governorate implemented 265 decisions to remove the encroachment on agricultural lands and state property (Al-Bawaba News - 28 August 2016)
76. The seizure of a grocery store owner in possession of a ton of subsidized flour before selling it on the black market in Qena. (Vito - 28 August 2016)
77. The Public Prosecutor ordered an investigation to be opened into the complaint submitted by 9 lawyers against the member of Parliament, Mustafa Bakri, in which they accuse him of high treason, committing the crime of violating the country's independence, unity, and territorial integrity, publishing false information and rumors, insulting the judiciary, and incitement against the Egyptian state (Al-Bawaba News - 28 August 2016)
78. Implementation of 40 decrees to remove the encroachment on agricultural lands in Assiut Governorate (Veto - 28 August 2016)
79. Removing 99 cases of encroachment on agricultural lands in Qena governorate (Vito - 29 August 2016)
80. 2 tons of food sugar was seized inside a store before it was sold on the black market in Hurghada (Vito - 30 August 2016)
81. An employee of the Shubra El-Kheima Traffic Department was seized for taking a 20 EGP bribe. (Echo Country - 30 August 2016)
82. The arrest of a police secretary who used his work in the Ministry of Interior to excavate antiquities in Sohag by virtue of his nature in the police. (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - 31 August 2016)
83. The Public Prosecutor orders the arrest of three new defendants in the case of corruption in wheat silos. (Al-Bawaba News - August 31, 2016)