30.08.2016 - 10:41 [ Middle East Eye ]

Egypt‘s top prosecutor to sift wheat from chaff in corruption report

Egypt‘s prosecutor general and an anti-corruption agency are to consider a parliamentary commission‘s report on corruption in the country‘s wheat industry which found the government played a key role in wasting hundreds of millions of dollars of public money.

The 500-page report, which was also presented to MPs on Monday, has already led to the resignation of the supplies minister, Khaled Hanafi, amid growing criticism of the management of state subsidy programmes.