The second quarterly report in the Corruption Status Book series “April - June 2018”

The second quarterly report in the Corruption Status Book series

April - June 2018

 

Introduction:  

Partners for Transparency continues to publish its quarterly reports from the Corruption Status Book series, as it publishes the second quarterly report for the year 2018, which monitors and discusses procedures and practices related to combating corruption and enhancing transparency.

During the second quarter of 2018, 96 incidents of corruption were monitored in various sectors, and a number of parliamentary practices related to anti-corruption were followed up, while the absence of relevant legislative initiatives continued, as none of the laws that strengthen anti-corruption efforts were discussed before the dissolution Parliamentary session in early August 2018.

Parliamentary practices related to combating corruption

During the second quarter of 2018, and as we explained in the preamble, the parliament did not discuss any legislative proposals or amendments related to combating corruption, as these important laws are still far from the legislative agenda, and despite several proposals presented at the beginning of the current parliamentary session as proposals for laws to protect whistleblowers and witnesses, organizing Circulation of information, but all these projects did not find their way to the plenary sessions, not even the quality committees in most of the time. In general, we monitored during the period covered by the report that some representatives submitted a number of questions and requests for information regarding corruption incidents, the most important of which were the following: -

  • MP Khaled Abu Talib submitted a question to the Prime Minister, and to the ministers of transport and communications, the public business sector, regarding the suspicion of wasting public money in the process of removing the Nasr City-Al-Matareya tram and Heliopolis. Abu Talib explained in a press statement, that the Heliopolis tram and the Nasr City tram-Al-Matareya, and similar to these trams, which were decided to be removed, and this is what has already been done, but the remnants of the removal, especially the iron bars, which were filled in in a number of places and places, this matter is considered A waste of public money.
  • Representative Ahmed Rifaat, a member of the House of Representatives, on behalf of the Free Egyptians Party in Barakat al-Saba 'and Quesna district in the Menoufia governorate, submitted a briefing request to the Speaker of Parliament, Dr. Ali Abdel-Al, addressed to the Prime Minister, Eng. And all governorates of the Republic, he added that the weakness of oversight in the Ministry of Irrigation is concentrated in the contracts issued between the contractors responsible for clearing canals and drains, which oblige the contractor to clear canals and raise the drilling output away from the edges of the canals to not disrupt the road movement.
  • Representative Mohamed El-Koumi, a member of Parliament for the Free Egyptians Party, submitted an urgent request for a briefing and a statement addressed to Sherif Ismail, the prime minister, and the ministers of housing and transportation, asking them to prepare full reports on the conditions of roads in all governorates and neighborhoods in the republic, after the accidents he caused.
  • Muhammad Abdullah Zain, the deputy of Idku in Al-Buhaira Governorate, submitted a request for information on the crisis of stalled factories, noting that there are thousands of factories that have been stalled due to the deterioration of their machines and their inability to renew them, and others that have bad debts to be paid. After the Prime Minister’s statements that the total number of stalled factories reached 10,500 factories with a total investment of one trillion and 322 million, saying that, based on President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s recommendations, the necessity of reopening these factories and working to provide job opportunities for young people through them. The government is seeking to develop a business plan to get these factories running again.
  • Representative Ashraf Rahim, a member of Parliament, submitted a request for information about the "practices" of water and electricity, criticizing the loss and waste of millions of state funds because of this system, and Rahim demanded an alternative to this system in order to preserve public money, stressing that the idea of the practice was invented by the heads of drinking water companies across the Republic to solve the problem. Violating buildings in agricultural lands to deliver drinking water to them.
  • The Agriculture and Irrigation Committee of the House of Representatives discussed the briefing requests submitted by Representatives Raef Tamraz, Magdy Malak, Essam Mansi, and Jawaher Al-Sherbiny, regarding the waste of public funds in the 20 thousand feddans project in western Minya and the failure to use scientific methods in its cultivation, which led to the destruction of three thousand acres planted with cotton.
  • Representative Muhammad Hani Al-Hinnawi, a member of the House of Representatives, submitted an interrogation regarding facilitating the seizure of public money and not collecting financial dues for the state in the Beheira Governorate, estimated at more than 140 million pounds, according to the report of the Central Auditing Organization for Al-Buhaira Governorate, which confirms that there is a financial violation represented in not Implementation of the decision of the Minister of Local Development No. 118 of 2011 and the fatwa of the State Council regarding the prohibition of combining the presidency or membership of more than two councils or two committees to manage projects and accounts established in the governorates due to the unjust disbursement of sums of money to senior workers in the General Office of the Beheira Governorate and the local unit

Administrative control activity

During the period covered by the report, the Administrative Control Authority continued to activate the new legal framework regulating it, and to complete its efforts that have become very prominent in adopting proactive measures and creating an anti-corruption environment, and this was evident in the issuance of a decision to form the Board of Directors of the National Academy for Combating Corruption, which included the Minister of Investment and Cooperation International, the Attorney General, the head of the Central Auditing Agency, and the head of the Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Unit.

The period given by the report also witnessed an important visit to the President of the Administrative Control Authority and the Board of Directors of the National Academy for Combating Corruption to Washington, where meetings were held with the leaders of the World Bank, where the leaders of the World Bank praised the Egyptian efforts in combating corruption and governance and the economic and social reform program, which contributed to an increase in the rate of Growth, new investment, lower unemployment and inflation.

The meeting discussed increasing cooperation between the Administrative Control Authority and the World Bank through the signed cooperation protocol in the field of combating corruption, exchange of information on governance indicators and their data sources, policy reforms related to governance, and the exchange of international experiences on best practices related to organizational and administrative reforms.

The numerical distribution of corruption incidents according to sectors during the second quarter of 2018:   

  • The second quarter of 2018 recorded 96 incidents of corruption, as the catering sector came at the top of the list with 211 TP1T out of the total number of incidents, which numerically represent 20 incidents of corruption, and was followed closely by the local sector, where it recorded 16% of the total incidents, which represent 15 corruption incidents numerically, while the finance sector came in third place A rate of 8%, which numerically represents 8 incidents of corruption out of a total of 96 incidents, while the agricultural, public business, social solidarity, irrigation and water resources sectors witnessed a rate of 4%, which numerically represents 4 incidents of corruption for each of them, while the justice sector, electricity, and the private sector witnessed 3% Of the total number of each of them, while the education sector, higher education, petroleum, and economic bodies witnessed 2% of the total incidents, and finally the transport sector, endowments, tourism, media, civil aviation, youth and sports, each of which witnessed a rate of 1% of the total incidents Corruption during the second quarter of 2018.

 

Sectors

Number of incidents Percentages

Sectors

Number of incidents Percentages
Supply 20 %21 private sector 3 %3
Localities 15 %16 Education 2 %2
Financial 8 %8 Higher Education 2 %2
the health 7 %7 petroleum 2 %2
Housing 7 %7 Economic bodies 2 %2
Farming 4 %4 Transport 1 %1
General business 4 %4 Endowments 1 %1
Social solidarity 4 %4 tourism 1 %1
Irrigation and water resources 4 %4 media 1 %1
Justice 3 %3 Civil Aviation 1 %1
Electricity 3 %3 Youth and sports 1 %1

 

Judicial distribution of corruption incidents during the second quarter of 2018:

As for the judicial distribution of corruption incidents during the second quarter of 2018, the corruption incidents that are still under investigation recorded the first place with a percentage of 80%, which numerically represents 77 incidents out of a total of 96 incidents, while the incidents that were not investigated got the second place with a percentage of 12% of the total incidents, representing 11 incidents numerically , While the corruption incidents that were judged ranked third with a percentage of 7% and represented 7 corruption incidents numerically, and the incidents still under trial ranked 1%, which represented numerically 1 corruption incidents, the last place out of a total of 96 corruption incidents during the second quarter of 2018.

The judicial position Number of incidents Percentages
under investigation 77 80%
Didn't bring it out 11 12%
Was judged 7 7%
On trial 1 1%

 

Geographical distribution of corruption incidents during the second quarter of 2018:

Geographically, Cairo governorate still occupies the first place for corruption incidents during the second quarter of 2018 with a percentage of 38%, which is numerically 36 incidents out of a total of 96 incidents, then Alexandria governorate comes in second place with a ratio of 11%, which numerically represents 11 corruption incidents out of the total incidents, while Giza governorate ranked third with a percentage of 8% With 8 incidents of corruption, Beheira governorate comes in fourth place with a percentage of 6% with 6 incidents of corruption. During the second quarter of 2018.

Governorate Number of incidents Percentages Governorate Number of incidents Percentages
Cairo 36 38% Qena 2 2%
Alexandria 11 11% the shortest 2 2%
Giza 8 8% Qalyubia 1 1%
the lake 6 6% Monufia 1 1%
Suez 4 4% Kafr Sheikh 1 1%
Fayoum 4 4% The Red Sea 1 1%
Eastern 3 3% Ismailia 1 1%
Western 3 3% Minya 1 1%
Asyut 3 3% Aswan 1 1%
Sohag 2 2%      
Bani Sweif 2 2%      

 

Appendix 1: Compilation of corruption incidents during the second quarter of 2018

Compilation of corruption facts during April 2018

  1. . Giza residents monitored the lighting of electric lighting poles above the Dokki Bridge during the day, which is considered a waste of public money (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - April 3, 2018)
  2. Parents of Giza governorate students filed a complaint with the “Administrative Prosecution” against the Governor of Giza, through which they were harmed by raising the student density in classes and dividing the attendance of kindergarten students in the school week into two groups, each group for three days only, which is a waste of public money and effort and distorting an entire generation and violating the constitution And the law. (Al-Fajr -3 April 2018)
  3. Representative Khaled Abu Talib, a member of the Defense and National Security Committee in the House of Representatives, explained that the Heliopolis Housing and Development Company of the Holding Company for Construction and Building admits to wasting public money, with regard to lawyers with temporary contracts and a decision issued for them by the holding company to terminate their service, and the subsidiary company executed in a way. Contracting with them under the external office system, which is a grave breach. (Al-Bawaba News-7 April 2018)
  4. Deputy Atef Abdel-Gawad submitted a request for information to the Ministers of Housing and Local Development, regarding the existence of incidents of administrative corruption and massive violations of the law in the Beni Suef Housing Directorate regarding the collapse of a heritage building, based on the request supported by the documents submitted by the Representative Ismail Nasreddin for some time and it was not seen. Representatives, where a decision to restore, strengthen and support the walls was issued in force within 48 hours.
  5. The Supply Inspectorate in Assiut managed to seize 12 tons of subsidized sugar before it was sold on the black market and spoiled goods unfit for human consumption (Masrawy 3 April 2018)
  6. The people of East Shubr al-Khaima demanded the dismissal of the district chief, as a 14-year-old teenager died after falling into an open sewage cesspool for negligence in the face of the phenomenon of stealing sewer covers, which is a waste of public money (Al-Watan - April 8, 2018)
  7. The residents of Abu Al Matamir Center in Al Buhaira governorate revealed the incident of the collapse of parts of the ring road towards the Nawar Bridge at Aziz Khanky Bank in the center of Abu Al Matamir, only 48 hours after the completion of the paving work, which is considered a waste of public money. (Home - 9 April 2018)
  8. The Administrative Control Authority arrested the head of the tariff department at Ain Sokhna port customs for assisting a private sector company operating in the clothing industry in the introduction of goods at low prices and falsifying the true prices of the shipment, which caused the loss of the 5.8 million value of the original customs duties on the state treasury. EGP (Al-Shorouk-10 April 2018)
  9. Deputy Muhammad al-Husseini, deputy of the Local Administration Committee in the House of Representatives, confirmed that he would submit a briefing request to Dr. Ali Abdel-Al, Speaker of Parliament, to direct the Prime Minister, Engineer Sherif Ismail and Dr. Ghada, to the Minister of Solidarity regarding corruption associated with the Takaful and Karama program, as a result of what was revealed by the review of the Medical Commission in Luxor regarding the payment of pension Solidarity and dignity for more than 11,000 citizens without a right requires the necessity to find out the perpetrator behind this process, as it is classified as a waste of public money. (Al-Youm Al-Sabah - 10 April 2018)
  10. The Administrative Control Authority arrested a financial controller of the Giza Irrigation General Administration and his brother, an employee of a telecommunications company, for the former to take 15,000 pounds as a bribe from a contractor dealing with the administration, in exchange for finalizing the procedures for disbursing the extract for the maintenance and development of the Giza Irrigation Directorate building. (Al-Bawaba News-10 April 2018)
  11. The Public Funds Prosecution office in East Cairo ordered the college to detain a collection official in North Cairo Electricity Distribution Company for 4 days pending investigation, on charges of embezzling sums of money from electricity bills. (Al-Youm Seven - 10 April 2018)
  12. The Cairo Criminal Court issued a verdict in absentia against the defendant, the former director of operations department in a bank, to 7 years imprisonment and a fine of 18.770 million pounds and refunding an amount equal to the amount sentenced for his appropriation of clients' money and making illegal gains. (Day 7 - April 10, 2018)
  13. The Giza Criminal Court sentenced the defendant to life in prison, the former advisor to the Minister of Finance for real estate taxes, to a fine of 100,000 pounds, and the confiscation of the bribe amount. The events of the case are due to the information received by the Administrative Control Authority stating the accused’s request, sums of money and material benefits as a bribe from some heads Boards of a number of companies. (Al-Ahram - April 10, 2018)
  14. The Administrative Control Authority arrested the second head of the demolitions committee in the Amiriya neighborhood, and the director of the Road Works Department in the same neighborhood, in two separate incidents, in order to overlook the implementation of the removal of a property owned by a contractor. (Al-Dustour - April 10, 2018)
  15. The Administrative Control Authority was able to recover 9.5 million pounds, which was seized by the owner of a contracting company with the help of the General Director of the Engineering Department at one of the regional universities in Upper Egypt and engineers in the same administration to implement the construction work of the Women's Health Hospital that does not meet the specifications. (Echo of the country - April 10, 2018)
  16. The State Council's Supreme Disciplinary Court ruled that 3 officials of the General Administration for the Protection of the Nile in Luxor were punished for manipulating car rental for their employer, and for committing serious financial and administrative violations (Al-Dustour - 12 April 2018).
  17. The General Administration of Public Funds Investigation managed to arrest 3 employees of the city council of Senbellawein and Tahta General Hospital for their involvement in corruption and waste of public money cases, and they were referred to the prosecution which took over the investigation. (Al-Ahram - April 13, 2018)
  18. The security services in the lake managed to seize 2 tons of rice of unknown origin before it was sold in the market (Rosal-Youssef - April 16, 2018)
  19. The General Administration of Supply and Trade Police managed to arrest 142 cases of selling subsidized flour and wheat on the black market, and violations of bakeries (Al-Watan - April 17, 2018).
  20. Supply Investigations in Fayoum managed to seize 4,500 liters of solar and 92 subsidized gasoline before they were sold on the black market (Al-Watan - April 18, 2018).
  21. The Administrative Control Authority arrested an official in the Electricity Distribution Company in Alexandria Governorate in the act of taking a bribe from a citizen in exchange for reducing the value of the engineering assessment for installing electricity meters (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - 18 April 2018).
  22. The authority arrested a doctor, a businesswoman and the owner of a private company working in the global gold trade, for offering an amount of LE 1.750 million as a bribe to gold collection officials of the Mineral Resources Authority in the Eastern Desert Region, in exchange for facilitating her seizure of 50 kilograms of ore Gold (Al-Bawaba News - April 18, 2018)
  23. The Administrative Control Authority managed to arrest the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Cooperative Society for Housing Workers in a regional university, the treasurer of the association, an authorized member of the association, and five other members of its board of directors. Because they committed many violations to facilitate the delegated member's appropriation of about 1.5 million pounds from the association’s accounts. (News portal-18 April 2018)
  24. The Administrative Control Authority has seized a network of some employees in the companies affiliated with the Holding Company for EgyptAir, and some employees of the Customs Authority, for the accused of exploiting their positions and functional powers to obtain bribes from some owners of drug distribution companies and from some owners of private pharmacies in exchange for smuggling drugs and medical drugs that are prohibited to import. (Al-Ahram - April 18, 2018)
  25. The Administrative Control Authority has arrested the director of the Emiri properties in Suez Governorate, and two of the governorate's major contractors, for breaching his job duties and assisting them in evading the payment of the debts owed to the state. (Al-Youm Al-Sabah - 18 April 2018)
  26. The Administrative Control Authority was able to recover 1.5 million pounds after controlling account officials in the management of patients' accounts in the Teaching Hospital of a regional university for having embezzled 1.2 million pounds from the hospital’s funds (Al-Bawaba News-18 April 2018).
  27. The General Administration of Public Funds Investigation in Kafr El-Sheikh succeeded in seizing 4 officials of the local unit of a village, to exploit their job position and enable a person to build a house on agricultural land in violation of the provisions of the law (Al-Tahrir - April 21, 2018).
  28. The Bab Al-Sharia District Prosecution has kept the investigations into the incident of accusing the director of housing and the director of the stores department in Bab Al-Sharia district of intentionally damaging public money for his accusation of not completing the demolition of a violating building on a plot of land on Al-Jaish Street, the Bab Al-Sharia police department, leaving a piece of it to be used as a store of foodstuffs and forgery in official documents . (Al-Bawaba News-23 April 2018)
  29. The Supply Investigation Department managed to arrest the owner of a store that sells agricultural fertilizers, located in the village of Al-Najah, affiliated to the Badr Center, for collecting 2,550 tons of subsidized agricultural fertilizers for the Development and Agricultural Credit Bank, which are intended for distribution to farmers under the system of agricultural holdings and prohibited from being circulated in the market for resale on the black market. (Al-Bawaba News - April 24, 2018)
  30. Officers of the Public Funds Department of the Red Sea Security Directorate were able to arrest 5 employees of Hurghada General Hospital on charges of misappropriating public funds (Al-Bawaba News-25 April 2018)
  31. Supply Investigations managed to confiscate 600 loaves of subsidized bread before they were sold on the black market in the lake (Sada Al-Balad - April 27, 2018).
  32. A complaint was filed by the Public Prosecutor, the Supreme Public Funds Prosecution and Administrative Control against Magdy Lashin in his capacity as President of Egyptian Television, and the complaint included “that the Egyptian television building, which includes a huge wealth of dramatic artistic and program materials, would have been liable to generate huge profits if it was invested in the era of satellite channels by granting other channels the rights to show This led to the loss of all opportunities to reap profits equal to expenditures (Al-Dustour - April 28, 2018).
  33. The security services in the lake managed to arrest the owner of a local bakery located in Mahmudiyah city for collecting 250 kilos of subsidized flour for resale on the black market to achieve illegal profits (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - 28 April 2018).
  34. The Ministry of Endowments decided to exempt the head of the Egyptian Endowments Authority from his post, especially after a referral to the Public Prosecution by the Minister of Endowments against the background of selling shares owned by the Authority in the Housing and Development Bank by direct order without referring to the board of directors or the minister as he is the administrator of the endowment, which caused financial losses Fatal for the body. Which wasted on the authority to reap 151 million profits. (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - 29 April 2018)
  35. The Supreme Disciplinary Court ruled that the former head of the legal affairs sector of the Holding Company for Airports and Air Navigation, and one of his assistants, were sanctioned after they were proven to have committed grave financial and administrative violations that resulted in wasting LE 9.4 million. The ruling included the acquittal of the Director of Cases Administration after it was proven incorrect that what was attributed to him by the Technical Inspection Department on Legal departments at the Ministry of Justice (Constitution - 30 April 2018)

Corruption facts during May 2017:

  1. A number of employees of the Health Insurance Authority in Qena governorate submitted a complaint to Major General Abdel Hamid Al Hajjan, Governor of Qena, demanding an investigation into a number of grave breaches within the Authority, its various clinics and the Health Insurance Hospital, the presence of new medical equipment whose value exceeds 150,000 without using it and the lack of equipped ambulances. (Day 7 - May 1, 2018)
  2. The security services in Sohag arrested the head of the survey office in one of the governorate centers, against the background of accusing him of exploiting his influence and causing the waste of millions of pounds by facilitating the seizure of public money and deliberately damaging it. (Al-Ahram - May 2, 2018)
  3. The Administrative Control Authority has arrested the principal of Ismail Maatouq Preparatory School for Girls, and the agent of the school located in one of the villages of Markaz and the city of Qena, if they received an amount of EGP 10,000 as a bribe from the contractor for the implementation of the school's restoration and maintenance works, in exchange for handing him a certificate stating the quality of the work carried out in order to be able to pay his dues The financial system is estimated at 300 thousand pounds (Sada Al-Balad - May 2, 2018).
  4. The Administrative Control Authority has arrested an official in the Meter Review Department at the Drinking Water Company, Nasr City Branch, in the act of taking bribes from the owner of a car showroom, in exchange for breaching the duties of his job and changing the readings fixed in the books in his custody for the participation of the exhibition, as well as changing the idle meter with a new one to calculate The real value. (Sada al-Balad - May 5, 2018)
  5. The Administrative Control Authority was able to arrest the Director of Organization in the center and city of Tala in the Governorate of Menoufia, in flagrante delicto, requesting and charging an amount of 80 thousand pounds from the owner of a property with a privileged location in the city of Tala, in exchange for obtaining a demolition and building permit for the property built on an area of 65 square meters, and the value is estimated Market land is about 2 million pounds (Al-Dustour - May 5, 2018)
  6. The official of the technical office of the General Administration for the Protection of the Nile at the Ministry of Irrigation was arrested red-handed with a request and an amount of 30 thousand pounds was paid for the bribe from the owner of a tourist dock on the Nile, in exchange for her finalizing the procedures for renewing the marina's license, and presenting the defendants to the Public Prosecution Office decided to imprison them. (Beginning - 5 May 2018)
  7. The Administrative Control Authority has arrested a former general manager in the big corporate finance sector in a bank, for receiving an amount of 1.3 million pounds as a bribe from the owner of a private company group. The Administrative Control revealed that the bribery was in return for the speedy completion and facilitation of procedures for companies obtaining credit facilities and loans from the bank, and submitting the defendants to the Public Prosecution Office, which ordered their imprisonment. (Tahrir - May 5, 2018)
  8. The Administrative Control Authority arrested the member of the political liaison at the Ministry of Finance, the Director General of Financial and Administrative Affairs, and the Director of Contracts Department at the General Secretariat for Mental Health, as well as the arrest of the Financial Controller of the Ministry of Finance on the General Secretariat for Mental Health, red-handed, for a sum of half a million pounds. A bribe from the owner of a supply and contracting company in exchange for facilitating the procedures for awarding the equipment works to a hospital affiliated with the Mental Health Secretariat and facilitating the disbursement of extracts to the company (Al-Tahrir - May 5, 2018)
  9. Supply Investigations in Suez managed to seize 5,000 liters of solar powered by two cars without bills before they were smuggled and sold on the black market at a higher price, with the intention of profiting from the price difference. (Watani - May 5, 2018)
  10. A committee from the Technical Office of the Supply Directorate in Fayoum revealed a deficit of 25 tons of municipal flour supported by a bakery (Al-Watan - May 9, 2018)
  11. The Administrative Control Authority was able to arrest an employee of one of the charitable zakat institutions affiliated to a bank in the banking sector while he was withdrawing and transferring an amount of 800 thousand pounds to his account from the institution’s charitable funds in one of the bank’s branches. The suspect’s seizure resulted in thwarting his attempt to seize another eleven million pounds From the funds of the charity. (Beginning - 5 May 2018)
  12. The Administrative Control Authority managed to arrest a full-time professor and former head of the rheumatology and physiotherapy department in one of the medical colleges in Cairo, red-handed by taking a sum of money as a bribe from his fellow faculty member in the same college, to facilitate her obtaining a leave without pay, taking advantage of his influence and relations Among its superiors and colleagues. (Beginner - 5 May 2018)
  13. Al-Buhaira Supply Investigation Department managed to seize a truck carrying 11 tons of subsidized fertilizers, while it was driving in the Badr Center, on its way to sell the subsidized fertilizers on the black market (Al-Ahram Al-Zeraei - May 7, 2018)
  14. The General Administration of Supply and Internal Trade Investigation managed to arrest the owner of an unlicensed warehouse located in the Peace First Police Department (Al-Fajr - May 10, 2018).
  15. The Supply Investigations Department in the Western Security Directorate managed to seize subsidized food commodities before selling them on the black market, as the owner of a food supply station in Bandar Qutour was arrested for collecting 280 kilos of sugar, oil, macaroni and cheese tied to the supply cards. (Al-Youm Seven - 11 May 2018)
  16. Supply Investigations managed to seize 182 food cases during a week in Dakahlia (Masrawy - May 12, 2018)
  17. In the tenth of Ramadan, a citizen explained that the Jordan District road was dug twice in less than a year after preparing the pavement for the first time, and within only two months the road was dug again, and the road was completely broken more than 20 km, under the pretext of changing the entire water network. -12 May 2018)
  18. Public Funds Investigators at the Alexandria Security Directorate managed to arrest an employee of the Alexandria Criminal Court for offering a sum of 4000 EGP to a police sergeant, in exchange for preparing a letter from the emergency police, to be used as part of the case papers of “Demonstrating Power and Resisting Powers.” (Beginners - 12 May 2018)
  19. The investigations resulted in the Chairman of the Alexandria Company for Consumer Complexes, who was previously accused in 4 cases of seizure and damage to public money, the last of which was the case of seizing public money, by exploiting his job position and damaging his workplace's money after the legalization of procedures. Documents supporting the incident were obtained. The second accused, (Beginner - May 12, 2018)
  20. Attorney General, Counselor, Nabil Sadiq, has ordered the summons of the vice president of the New Urban Communities Authority for the Urban Development Sector, the head of the New Cairo City Authority, the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Greater Cairo Sanitation Company, and the head of the legal sector of each of the Holding Company for Drinking Water and Sanitation, and the Authority New urban communities, to hear their statements about the incident of rainwater accumulation crisis in New Cairo, and to submit the necessary documents to the Public Funds Prosecution which conducts investigations (Beginning - 12 May 2018)
  21. The Public Funds Prosecution at the West Cairo Prosecution College referred employees of the South Cairo Court to the Criminal Court for accusing them of requesting and taking a bribe of 400,000 pounds from a merchant to terminate his contracts. (Beginning - 12 May 2018)
  22. The Public Funds Investigation Department in Minya managed to arrest the accused in flagrante delicto, after the Public Funds Investigation Department asked the head of the control to accompany the accused. (Beginner - 12 May 2018)
  23. The General Administration of Public Funds Investigation managed to arrest an employee of the Executive Authority for Drinking Water and Sanitation and another if they received a financial bribe from a person in exchange for excluding a plot of land he owned from establishing a drinking water station on it. (Beginning - 12 May 2018)
  24. The Administrative Control Authority has arrested a district manager in the Security Department of the General Nile Company for Roads and Bridges in flagrante delicto by taking 20 thousand pounds as a bribe from a contractor dealing with the company in exchange for selling some modern equipment as scrap items by claiming that he is a general manager of the company and responsible for scrapping and selling equipment and cars The old company and its pricing. (Beginning - 24 May 2018)
  25. The Administrative Control Authority arrested the technical official at the Real Estate Registry Department in the Real Estate Registration Office in Ismailia Governorate for tampering with the documents and data in the administration for the benefit of some citizens who violated the lands to prove their ownership of unjust plots of land worth 3.5 million pounds (Al-Wafd - May 24, 2018).
  26. The Administrative Control Authority has arrested eight local officials in the Fayoum governorate, who are the head of the engineering department in the center and town of Tamiya, the legal administration agent, the infringement official, the property official, property technicians, the former head of the local unit of Fanous village, and the head of the agricultural association in the village, for their facilitation The seizure of lands by others on state property with an area of about 2,500 square meters, and their failure to take legal measures regarding cases of illegal construction on lands and damage to public money, with a value of about 4.3 million pounds representing the value of the seized land. (Al-Bawaba News-24 May 2018)
  27. The Administrative Control Authority arrested two nurses in the Oncology Department of the main university hospital in Alexandria who seized drugs worth about one and a half million pounds. (Masrawy - May 24, 2018)
  28. In addition, the representative of a tourism company was arrested red-handed and offered an amount of 250 thousand pounds as a bribe to the political liaison official at the Ministry of Manpower in exchange for listing 64 people in the travelers' lists of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to serve pilgrims for the current season, in violation of the truth. (Al-Bawaba News-24 May 2018)
  29. Arresting the auditor in the main accounting unit of a university in the city of Cairo for having embezzled an amount of about 380 thousand pounds from the salary accounts of faculty members of the Faculty of Medicine for Boys by adding amounts in excess to the exchange forms. (Al-Masry Al-Youm - May 24, 2018)
  30. The Administrative Control Authority arrested the official in charge of preserving customs data in the General Administration for temporary admission at the port of Dekheila, following his request and receiving an amount of 50 thousand pounds as a bribe from an extractor of a company in exchange for handing over copies of documents related to the company's customs data to be used in the lawsuit filed by the Customs Authority against the company. (Portal News - May 24, 2018)
  31. The Administrative Control Authority has arrested the Director of Contracts Department at the Housing Directorate in Gharbia, red-handedly taking sums of money as a bribe from the head of the office of a national newspaper in the governorate, in exchange for increasing the number of advertisements that the Directorate advertises in the newspaper instead of publishing it on the online portal (Al-Watan - May 24, 2018)
  32. The Alexandria Criminal Court has sentenced the General Director of Industrial Laboratories at the Export and Import Control Authority branch in Alexandria and four other engineers in the same branch to 3 years imprisonment, and also sentenced to one year imprisonment for each of the importers of one of the letters and three of the extractors of the company. (Al-Youm Seven - 24 May 2018)
  33. The College Prosecutor in Suez, under the supervision of the General Advocate for the Suez Prosecutions, decided to imprison general managers and employees of the Export and Imports Authority branch in Ain Sokhna for 15 days pending investigations in Case No. 27 of 2018 Administrative Ataqa for accusing them of profit. (The seventh day - May 26, 2018)
  34. The Administrative Control Authority arrested each of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Holding Company for Food Industries and the director of his office, as well as the arrest of the advisor to the Minister of Supply for the media, the official spokesperson of the Ministry, and the advisor to the Minister for political communication in the House of Representatives, for taking financial bribes exceeding two million pounds from the major commodity supply companies Food in exchange for assigning orders to supply goods to it, as well as facilitating payment of its dues, and procedures are being taken to bring the accused to the prosecution. (Al-Ahram - May 29, 2018)
  35. Supply investigation officers in Aswan managed to seize 29 supply cases in the governorate centers' markets, a case that consisted of collecting subsidized food commodities, 7 cases of violations of municipal bakeries, and 4 cases of using butane cylinders for other than their intended purpose. (Al-Watan - May 29, 2018)

Compilation of corruption facts during June 2018:

  1. The General Administration of Public Funds Investigation has seized a marketing official in a pharmaceutical company for seizing reduced drugs, selling them for his own account, and seizing more than one million pounds (Al-Watan -1 June 2018)
  2. The 17th Circuit of Giza Criminal Court is reviewing the trial of 5 officials of the Smart Card Company, on charges of graft and the seizure of 60 million pounds of support funds related to food commodities, subsidized bread, and money laundering crimes (Masrawy - June 5, 2018)
  3. Security forces in Alexandria arrested the former president of Alexandria Consumer Complexes Company, the former head of the legal affairs sector of the company, and 3 owners of a private company for their involvement in wasting public money amounting to one million and 894 thousand pounds (Sada al-Balad - June 6, 2018).
  4. Supply Investigation in Sohag managed to seize 86 cases, including the bakery manager's seizure of 4 tons of fortified municipal flour (Al-Youm Al-Sabea - June 8, 2018)
  5. The General Administration of Public Funds Investigation succeeded in apprehending a former official in the engineering department in the central Alexandria district to exploit his job position and enable some people to build residential real estate without a license. (Al-Youm Seven - June 10, 2018)
  6. The North Assiut Prosecution office ordered that the supply officials and the oil company supplying the Assiut Supply Directorate be summoned and the Supply Investigations investigated the supply of large quantities of expired supply oils that are not suitable for human consumption from a company (Al-Shorouk - June 10, 2018).
  7. Supply Investigations in Fayoum managed to seize a supply office manager and an employee in possession of 1068 smart ration cards and use them to disburse supply points for their personal account (Al-Shorouk-13 June 2018)
  8. The Administrative Control Authority was able to arrest the Director of the Supervision and Supervision Sector in a bank who supervises foreign exchange and exchange companies to collect sums of money as a bribe from the owner of a private exchange company, in exchange for his condoning the company's violations and its trading in foreign currencies outside the legitimate channels. (Al-Masry Al-Youm - June 13, 2018)
  9. The Administrative Control Authority managed to arrest five employees of an oil company and the Public Transport Authority for seizing subsidized diesel and selling it to private sector companies at reduced prices in exchange for a bribe (Al-Ahram - June 13, 2018).
  10. Screenwriter Waheed Hamed submitted a report to the Public Funds Prosecution to investigate the management of the fund and donations portfolio at Hospital 57357, which is estimated at one billion pounds, and to request a review of salaries and "networks of interests and relatives inside the place", while another report was submitted to the administrative control to discuss the file in its entirety. (Al-Masry. Today - 14 June 2018)
  11. The Administrative Control Authority was able to arrest the Director General of the Implementation Department of the Northwest Coast Development and Reconstruction Authority, technicians from the administration, the owner of a private road contracting company, and a broker working for the company, to collect the first, second and third sums of money of 110 thousand pounds on a monthly basis as a bribe from The owner of the contracting company, to facilitate the procedures for disbursing extracts for his company implementing the sub-roads project in a length of 34 kilometers from the city of Matrouh to the center of El-Nujaila with a total value of 18 million pounds, as well as for them to issue extracts that include counting works that exceed the truth so that the contractor will spend more money on it than his owed. Homeland - 14 June 2018)
  12. The head of the board of directors of one of the control societies and agricultural cooperatives in the Dakahlia governorate, and the last mediator were arrested for the first requesting an area of 4 acres worth about 2 million pounds as a bribe from one of the owners of agricultural holdings in exchange for registering the rest of his ownership in the association (Al-Watan - June 14, 2018).
  13. The director of the Social Solidarity Department in the city of Faqous, in the Eastern Province, has been seized for embezzling sums of money from the pension accounts designated for a number of beneficiaries of social protection programs projects "Takaful and Dignity", and for spending and seizing pensions using the electronic exchange cards of the beneficiaries for several months before handing them over to their owners, in addition to the returned pensions that It was not delivered to the beneficiaries, and the accused paid the embezzled sum of about one million pounds (Al-Watan - June 14, 2018).
  14. The real estate tax collection official in “Garden City” in Cairo was also arrested red-handed by charging an amount of 5,000 pounds from the owner of one of the housing units within the jurisdiction of the commission, in exchange for reducing the value of the real estate tax estimated on his housing unit from 25 thousand pounds to 5,000. (Al-Watan - June 14, 2018)
  15. The authority arrested the owner of a customs clearance office for presenting a forged certificate attributable to its issuance to the Agricultural Quarantine Department to Safaga Port customs, in favor of a company working in the field of import and export, with the aim of exporting varieties of agricultural crops to an Arab country that are not among the items for which the export approval was issued. (Home - 14 June 2018)
  16. The owner of a private company operating in the field of textiles was arrested, and the responsible manager of the company, for making customs certificates stating that the company had exported 111 tons of clothes, contrary to the truth, for the purpose of smuggling them into the country, and the value of the fines owed to the state for the shipment was estimated at 16 million pounds. Homeland - 14 June 2018)
  17. The Giza Criminal Court decided to postpone the first retrial session of the former Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Mohamed Nasr El-Din Allam, on charges of facilitating a company’s seizure of 26,000 feddans in the Al-Ayyat area and causing a waste of public money of 37 billion and 128 million pounds to the next August 19 session for pleading. Beginning - 21 June 2018)
  18. The General Administration of Public Funds Investigation managed to arrest three officials of the Council of the Sons of Saqr City and Center in Sharkia for colluding with some citizens, issuing building permits for them and enabling them to build residential properties in violation of the law, and the prosecution office that took over the investigation was notified (Al-Ahram - 26 June 2018)
  19. The Administrative Control Authority arrested the head of the Dokki district, the two owners of a contracting company and one of the mediators working in the field of law, after the district chief had requested and received an amount of 250 thousand pounds, and a housing unit in Al-Batal Ahmed Abdulaziz Street amounted to about 2 million pounds from the property owners. News -26 June 2018)
  20. Investigations revealed that the Supreme State Security Prosecutor surprisingly ordered the inclusion of a new suspect in the case of "bribery of catering" who is the head of the procurement sector of the Holding Company for Food Industries at the Ministry of Supply to seize and bring him in. Administrative control officers managed to arrest the accused, and the prosecution began investigating him to accuse him of requesting and taking a bribe, and ordered his imprisonment 4 days pending investigations (Al-Watan - 26 June 2018)
  21. The delegated investigating judge in corruption cases of the Ministry of Agriculture has finished hearing the statements of Dr. Youssef Wali, the former Minister of Agriculture, regarding the charges brought against him, and the investigating judge is studying his statements in preparation for issuing a decision about him in the middle of next week (Beginning - 27 June 2018)
  22. The Cairo Criminal Court ruled that Ahmed Aziz, an advisor to the former Minister of Health, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and fined 500 thousand pounds. It also ruled to exempt the second defendant, Ayman Abdel Hakam, from punishment, and he mentioned in their accusations of receiving a bribe of 4 million pounds in the well-known case in the media, "bribery of the Ministry of Health." (Al-Masry Al-Youm - 27 June 2018)
  23. The arrest of a car with 8,000 liters of subsidized solar inside it, before it was smuggled to the black market in the Al-Shorouk region (Beginning - 28 June 2018)
  24. The director of a health insurance clinic in Dakahlia Governorate issued a police report that a large quantity of diabetes and rheumatism drugs had disappeared from the clinic, whose value was estimated at 45 thousand pounds. (Al-Masry Al-Youm - June 29, 2018)
  25. Dr. Tariq Al-Wakeel, Director General of Veterinary Medicine in Beni Suef, confirmed the issuance of 40 reports for the butchers and sellers of poultry in violation of the law in the city of Beni Suef and the seven administrative centers of the governorate, and the records were referred to the prosecution to take the necessary legal measures.
  26. The Attorney General, Counselor Nabil Sadiq, ordered the Central Cairo Prosecutor to investigate the complaint submitted by Muhammad al-Nimr, the lawyer, against the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Football Association and the rest of its members, accusing them of wasting public money for obtaining one million eight hundred thousand dollars to spend them on the national camp, while The hosting was free of charge by the President of Chechnya. (Ad-Dustour - June 30, 2018)

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