Bribery
Former deputy of Alexandria Governor Souad al-Khouly had her first court session in her trial for illicit gains amounting to L.E. 900,000 on Tuesday, where the case was adjourned to Feb. 24.
Alexandria Criminal Court sentenced the head of West Alexandria district to 3 years in prison over receiving a bribe from a contractor to cover up violations in the district.
Egypt’s Administrative Control Authority on Monday arrested a parliament member over requesting and accepting an LE 300,000 ($19,070) bribe from a private real estate company to allow the implementation of one of its projects in the capital, Cairo.
The Court of Cassation rejected the appeal of former Chairman of the Customs Authority Gamal Abdel Azim.
The Administrative Control Authority on Friday ordered the arrest of Abdel Azim Hussein, chief of the Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA) for allegedly accepting bribes, state’s media reported.
The Egyptian authorities managed to foil several attempts of illegal earnings and money laundering of up to LE 1 billion in several fields including electricity stealing, public taxies, bribery and misuse for power.
Khouli was referred to the criminal court over charges of illegally obtaining LE 900,000 ($55,199).
The Egyptian Administrative Control Authority (ACA) ordered in June, last year, the arrest of Major General Nader al-Saeed, head of the district, over accepting a bribe, along with three others.
Security sources said there are audio and video recordings confirms Selim's involvement in requesting an LE 200,000 bribe ($12,069).
Selim's detention came based on ACA's investigations.
The crimes varied from bribery and administrative corruption to illegal currency trade, money laundering and tariff evasion.
MP Salah Eisa is accused of facilitating and finishing procedures in exchange of LE 2 million.
The head of the technical office of Beheira governor was arrested over charges of taking bribes worth L.E. 500,000 from businessmen.
The charges are related to the bidding process for the 2019 World Athletics Championships to be held in Doha between September 27 and October 6.
Labban was arrested in December, 2016, over charges of receiving money and gold as bribes.
In May, Egypt’s Attorney General referred the 40 defendants to the Criminal court on charges of human trafficking and Smuggling of migrants.
The investigation team interrogated the defendants as they were faced by recordings, documents, and testimonies in lawsuit no. 77/2018.
Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Souad al-Khouli, former deputy governor of Alexandria, to 12 years in prison and ordered removing her from her job over bribery.
Egypt’s Administrative Control Authority (ACA) announced that its efforts during December resulted in seizing LE12.8 billion.
Egyptian Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek referred on Tuesday six engineers to Cairo Criminal Court on charges of bribery and corruption.
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