Partners for Transparency issues the third report of the "Corruption Journal" Monitor

85 corruption incidents occurred in September, and legislative procedures are still absent  

Cairo, October 12, 2015

Issued Partners for Transparency Foundation (PFT)  Its third monthly report in the “Corruption Status Book series of reports”, which covers the period from (1-30) September 2015, as the Foundation launched, on the first of July 2015, an observatory to track corruption incidents that are uncovered through the media, regulatory agencies and relevant investigation authorities, as well as For following up on the procedures of the state concerned with the case

The report focused on monitoring and analyzing legislative and procedural developments related to combating corruption, as well as counting the facts that were reported by various media outlets during the month of September 2015.

In September 2015, the monitoring process revealed 85 incidents of corruption, a decrease of 20% compared to what was recorded in August 2015.

The report indicated that the government's statements related to fighting corruption were "more intense" this month than before, and the main reason for this may be the political and media uproar that accompanied the revelation of the Ministry of Agriculture corruption scandal, and then the change of the prime minister and a number of its ministers, and thus the inclination of the number of A senior official to "announce" hard-line positions towards corruption within their sectors.

But at the same time, legislative solutions are still “absent” from the scene, despite its strong political positions, the most prominent of which was the acceptance of the government's resignation, but the state did not intervene during the month of September with laws and decisions that would deal with the phenomenon of widespread corruption in Egypt.

In addition, the activities organized by a number of governmental bodies and organizations related to combating corruption are all ostensibly aimed at educating their employees and qualifying them to engage in anti-corruption efforts. However, in practice these activities lack coherence, methodology and proper planning to allow measuring their impact and impact on the behavior and practices of employees within those activities. Hereafter bodies.

The report revealed that the Ministry of Supply and Localities came on top of the sectors that witness corruption for the second month in a row, with a score of 18 and 12 incidents in the two sectors in a row during the month of September 2015

The report also revealed that the number of cases under investigation ranks first among corruption incidents during the month of September with a score of 60, followed by the cases under trial with 14 cases, then after that come the cases that have been decided with a score of 7 cases, and finally, the cases that have not been completed It was investigated last with only 4 cases.

It is worth noting that Partners for Transparency Foundation (PFT)  A non-governmental organization, recognized 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 apply the values and practices of integrity, transparency, and accountability, in order to achieve comprehensive “human” development, respect for human rights, and the construction of The system of good governance, and 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.

To view the full report  : https://pfort.org/?p=522&preview=true