Customs official arrested for planning to seize L.E 47M

CAIRO – 30 August 2017: Security bodies arrested on Wednesday the Ministry of Finance Customs Authority auditor on charges of offering an official in the same authority a bribe of L.E 2.5 million to facilitate seizing L.E 47 million ($2.66 million) from its 2015/2016 fiscal year budget.

The budget was not used and was moved as accounts payable.

The security authorities detected the perpetrators’ manipulations to transfer the seized money to another bank account before dividing it among three persons involved, including the account owner.

The prosecution decided to keep the perpetrator in custody for investigation.
On Sunday, security forces arrested the deputy governor of the General Office of Alexandria Governorate, on charges including bribery, abuse of public money and profiteering.

Investigations confirmed that the deputy governor had received money, material gifts and gold jewelry worth more than LE 1 million from businessmen in return for exploiting her powers, which caused loss of public money worth about LE 10 million.

This is not the first bribery case. Earlier this month in Alexandria, the head of Al Raml's Court of Misdemeanors was arrested while receiving a bribe in a coffee shop.In a separate incident, the combating tax evasion head in Alexandria was also arrested after being accused of receiving a bribe estimated at LE 2 million from beach renters in North Coast.

Meanwhile, Egyptian security forces arrested five defendants accused of stealing LE 5 million from a car transporting money in Nasr City in Cairo.

Investigations have revealed that the defendants were former employees of the money transfer company.