egypt minister resigns amid corruption probe
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Egypt minister resigns amid corruption probe

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Egyptian Minister of Supply Khaled Hanafi resigned from his post on Thursday, the highest level fallout from a corruption probe into whether millions of dollars
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Egyptian Minister of Supply Khaled Hanafi resigned from his post on Thursday, the highest level fallout from a corruption probe into whether millions of dollars intended to subsidize farmers were used to purchase wheat that did not exist.
“I announce leaving my post so that the state can choose who will bear and continue this path of giving,” Khaled Hanafi said on state television.
Egypt, the world’s largest importer of wheat, has been mired in controversy over whether much of the roughly 5 million tons of grain the government said it procured in this year’s harvest exists only on paper, the result of local suppliers falsifying receipts to boost government payments.
If Egypt’s local wheat procurement figures were misrepresented, it may have to spend more on foreign wheat purchases to meet local demand — even as it faces a dollar shortage that has sapped its ability to import.
Egypt’s supply ministry is in charge of a massive food subsidy program and the main state grain buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC).
Parliamentarians who formed a fact-finding commission to investigate the fraud have said upwards of 2 million tons, or 40 percent of the locally procured crop, may be missing.

Source: Arab News

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