ACA arrests officials in accusations of narcotics, bribery

CAIRO – 4 January 2018: The Administrative Control Authority (ACA) arrested Head of the Masr El-Adema (Old Cairo) district after bribery accusations surfaced on Thursday.

In an official statement, the ACA affirmed that the official was arrested while receiving LE 2 million as a bribe from a contractor.

Also, in another Friday statement, ACA announced arresting narcotics trafficking gang in Luxor governorate including an official and anesthetist working for one of the public hospitals. The investigations are still ongoing according to the statement.

Last month, the ACA announced that its efforts during December resulted in seizing LE12.8 billion, along with arresting 30 defendants accused of bribery and embezzlement.

The Egyptian leadership realizes that corruption can cause deviation of authority, provide an opportunity for organized crimes to occur, and would lead to inequity among citizens and mistrust of government. Thus, the country is committed to taking positive steps to promote transparency and to establish a sound anticorruption framework.

These positive steps include ratifying the UN convention against Corruption (UNDAC) in 2005 and the UN convention against Transitional Organized Crime (UNTOC). In 2014, Egypt became a state party in the Arab League pan-Arab anti-corruption instruments, the Arab Convention to Fight Corruption.

Egypt has also implemented institutional reforms and deepened its partnerships with the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) on anti-corruption and anti-money laundering. Cooperation efforts with the EU and UN include providing technical and institutional support, training prosecutors to fight corruption, research, data analysis and enhancing global and regional cooperation in this area.