Cairo - MENA
The Administrative Control Authority (ACA) seized, in three days, five corruption cases of more than 150 million pounds.
The first case involves the director of a Banha silo and a security official who was charged with seizing 310 tons of wheat at a value of 1.6 million pounds.
The ACA also arrested two lawyers for forging official documents to lay their hands on a 140-million-pound villa in Maadi. The true owner of the villa is a foreigner who died years ago and has no.
The third case involves three government staffers at the Minya health directorate who were accused of forging official papers.
Also, a municipal official in Alexandria was arrested for taking a 45,000-pound bribe from a contractor to stop a demolition order.
The fifth case involves an official at El Sallam tax department for taking a 20,000-bribe from a school owner to cut down taxes levied on the school.
Source: MENA