Bashayer

April 18, 2017

Within the framework of the “Corruption Status Book” series, Partners for Transparency PFT issued the 21st report of the Corruption Status Book series, which dealt with monitoring and analysis of legislative and procedural developments related to combating corruption, as well as listing the facts that were revealed during the month of March 2017 and classifying them by sector and geography. And judicially.

 

In March 2017, a number of events and activities were held in some academic institutions, ministries, and government departments in the context of awareness-raising and education related to combating corruption, and there were frequent statements by some officials related to the nature of the general trend and political performance related to combating corruption and wasting public money. The law submitted by them to establish a coordinating body to combat corruption.

 

The report indicated that the month of March 2017 witnessed 94 incidents of corruption that were revealed through the media and the relevant agencies, and for the first time the incidents of corruption in the Ministry of Supply witnessed a relatively retreat from last month (16 incidents in March compared to 17 in February) despite the ministry’s continued occupation of the top sectors from In terms of the number of incidents, while the general sectoral and geographic arrangement of corruption incidents remains in line with what has prevailed since the beginning of the Corruption Status Book series, as the supply, localities, and health sectors still suffer the most from corruption and wasting public money, and the governorates of Cairo and Giza are The more obsessed is the greater percentage of these facts.

 

The report revealed that the incidents under investigation came first among corruption incidents during the month of March 2017, as the largest percentage was recorded at 74% out of a total of 94 incidents, followed by the incidents under trial with a score of 12%, and then came the facts that were judged by 9 %. It did not achieve the last rank with 5% of the total incidents, which means that 95% of the facts are under litigation.