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Partners for Transparency (PFT) released its third monthly report in the “Corruption Status Book series of reports”, which covers the period from (1-30) September 2015. Starting from July 1, 2015, the Foundation launched an observatory to track corruption incidents that are revealed through The relevant media, regulatory agencies and investigation authorities, as well as 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 September 2015.
In September 2015, the monitoring process revealed 85 incidents of corruption, a decrease of 20% than what was monitored in August 2015, indicating that the government's anti-corruption statements were "more intense" this month than before, and the main reason for this may be the political uproar. And the media that accompanied the disclosure of the Ministry of Agriculture corruption scandal, then the change of prime minister and a number of its ministers, and consequently the tendency of a large number of officials 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.
The report added that the activities organized by a number of governmental bodies and organizations related to fighting corruption are all ostensibly aimed at educating their employees and qualifying them to engage in anti-corruption efforts. later.
The report also 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, respectively, 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 comes the cases that have been decided with a score of 7 cases, and finally, the cases that have not been investigated come It is ranked last with only 4 cases.