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New Corruption Case in Egyptian Ministry of Supply Under Investigation

“published newspaperEgyptian today“About a new case of corruption in the Ministry of Supply of Egypt, in which an official who holds the position of Under-Secretary in one of the governments of Upper Egypt is being investigated.

The local newspaper quoted sources in the Ministry of Supply, which it did not name, as saying, “The Under Secretary of the Ministry of Supply gave verbal instructions to others to give rough quantities to merchants, from without any documents supporting the payment, according to what was said in the evidence of the defendants.”

She said, “The defendants extracted these quantities in the months of January and February 2023, from the Middle Egypt Flour Mills Company, to profit from them on the black market.

Because of “withholding sugar”… Egyptian officials were sentenced to military prison

Egypt’s government newspaper Al-Ahram said on Tuesday that the military court issued rulings to compel officials in the Ministry of Supply and government and private companies to “withhold sugar”. from the markets to raise prices and profits.

The newspaper said, “The Under Secretary of the Ministry of Supply and others have been charged with directing them to pay bran amounts without supporting documents to the the names of people who had no right to pay those amounts, and sell them on the black market for their own personal account.”

According to Al-Masry Al-Youm, “the total value of the profit received by merchants from the illegal withdrawal of raw material stocks exceeded 2,226 million pounds ($46,000).

The Al-Hurra website was unable to get a comment from the Egyptian Ministry of Supply regarding the investigations or the case, as the ministry’s spokesman, Ahmed Kamal, was contacted via the​​​​ “WhatsApp” application, unanswered till the publication of this report. .

In the last few months, the local media reported on corruption cases related to the Egyptian Ministry of Finance, as they revealed last December that the Administrative Control Authority had investigated on a corruption network in the ministry, and that there was an advisor to the minister, responsible for following it up. -up, over and spread, arrested.

Later this year, the Military Court issued orders to compel officials in the Ministry of Supply and government and private companies to “withhold sugar” from the markets to keep prices and to raise a profit, according to what the newspaper published.Pyramids“The government in early April.

2024-05-06 03:14:52
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