LE12B seized, 30 defendants arrested in Dec by ACA

CAIRO – 20 December 2018: Egypt’s Administrative Control Authority (ACA) announced that its efforts during December resulted in seizing LE12.8 billion, along with arresting 30 defendants accused of bribery and embezzlement.

In a Wednesday statement,ACA added that an international network of human trafficking, which included 20 Egyptian, Arab and European defendants, was uncovered earlier in December.

On Wednesday morning,ACA announced that a tourism company owner, a lawyer and a mechanic who claimed to be a lawyer were arrested for seizing LE 25 million using fake documents. All three defendants were arrested pending investigations.

ACA stated that the three defendants managed to fabricate documents that allowed them to drop the debt of the tourism company amounting to LE 25 million at one of the private banks.

In a similar incident, the ACA also announced that several officials of South Cairo Electricity Distribution Company and Omrania neighborhood in Giza were arrested as a result of receiving LE 200,000 as a bribe.

Earlier in November, President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi met with Major General Sherif Seifel-Din, chairman of the ACA, to discuss the national anti-corruption strategy.

ACA: Sisi launches 2nd phase of anti-graft strategy

CAIRO - 10 December 2018: President Abdel Fatah al Sisi has launched the second phase of the national strategy for fighting corruption 2019-2022 at Africa 2018 forum in Sharm El Sheikh. The Egyptian Administrative Control Authority (ACA), the country's anti-corruption body, said in a statement Monday that the second strategy complements the first one which was launched by the president in 2014.

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 U.N. convention against Corruption (UNDAC) in 2005 and the U.N. 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.

ACA detects dozens of corruption cases in one month

CAIRO - 8 September 2018: The Administrative Control Authority (ACA) unveiled and deterred corruption cases in different public institutions over the month of September preserving millions of pounds, facilitating the work of investors, and ensuring fair competition.