Egypt: The canker has reached the blossom since 1952.

What is corruption?

Corruption is: 1. lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain, 2. decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation), 3. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction", 3. destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence" , and 4. inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"

  

There is an old axiom often applied to those with political ambitions: Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. In this case, the term corruption means the abuse of a public office for personal gain or other illegal or immoral benefit. Political corruption is a recognized criminal offense, along with bribery, extortion, and embezzlement – three illegal acts often associated with corruption in office. Some forms of corruption may escape legal notice, such as the hiring of relatives for key positions, but they may not escape the scrutiny of voters on Election Day.

How far does the definition of corruption apply to the regime in Egypt; the president, Hosny Mubarak, present's wife, Suzan Mubarak, president's son, Gamal Mubarak, and the rest of administrative body of the government?

It does absolutely, completely, abundantly and overwhelmingly apply. Transparency Organization defined corruption as "it is the misuse of the given authority in order to achieve a special interest". It also defined it again as "the officials' behavior in the public or the governmental sector either they are politicians or civilian employees to illegally enrich themselves or their relatives, through using the given authority". In a country like Egypt, corruption is an unlimited plague. Yet, amid its recurrence, it is totally applied to us as our detention camps, security abuse and emergency law excel others. 

 Egypt now!

R. Kligaard defined corruption as "the person's illegal preference of his own interest, neglecting others' and the principles to which he declared commitment". 

This  applies to the Egyptian regime of Mohammed Hosni Mubarak along his era 

Not only him, but also his Mafia Retinue

One of the researchers determined three cases of corruption, best described in Egypt as its rulers describe lying: 1. Extortive corruption which includes cases when the ordinary person has to give a bribe to get his basic needs or protect his rights, 2. Manipulative corruption which has to do with influencing the decision in favor of a certain person, party or a certain category in any field, and 3. Nepotistic corruption which has to do with favoritism of relatives and close circle in posts and advantages, including nepotism.

There are also other kinds of corruption, named hidden or covered corruption that broke out among junior employees and those low-income ones. It represented a wide range of practices that were a part of the “hidden economy“ or the “shadow incomes”. It includes nowadays several activities that would influence the public interests, equality in favor of apartheid and private interests as well. In this file, we concentrate on the documentation of several of corruption cases carried out by this regime on different levels and fields, starting from housing, contracting, economy, privatization, health, communication, trade, banks, drug dealing, violation of the political and security systems, culture, press and other sectors

Hosny Mubarak

The third clown

Corruption is a daily Egyptian scene for any one who wants to know dimensions of the concept of corruption. Corruption and emergency are a status quo in the Egyptian life in the era of Mubarak, whom we blame together with his regime for the deteriorating situation and the total failure in all levels. Justification can no longer be used. It is there every day for those who feel frustrated all over the country.

It represents the “permanent moan" from citizens who lost their feeling of citizenship in this country. The regime, its party and government stole the citizen’s feeling of politics, making it as a meaning of the open detention for decades and security report when the one receives a job. Spreading fear, suppression, revolution and social violence is another form of this corrupt regime.

The citizen is now a servant at the police system; the officer no longer controls the Egyptian street. Police officers and noncommissioned officers control it. This spreads corruption and bribery as a key element in the daily practices. It is a simple daily incident between drivers and those concerned with traffic.

This is applied to car license and traffic jam due to the officer’s leniency, especially with the “microbus” drivers who already bribe him. This is a daily scene, which any Egyptian citizen could prove regardless of the denial of both the Interior Minister and his officers. The existence of the so-called state security courts or the exceptional courts and those military courts, all confirm the confusion between tyranny and corruption in Egypt, certainly apart from the defected judicial authority in Egypt. The writer did not indicate how to solve the problem, which is the non-independence of the judicial authority. 

 Suzan Mubarak

 

The whore of Babylon

Suzan Mubarak heads hundreds of charities, including the real and the imaginary ones, which targets are not charitable at all. For example, Susan's charity for children protection does not really protect any child. The child, in her husband's era, is raped and tortured in broad daylight in the police stations which are ought to be named as slaughter houses where citizens are really tortured as Hitler was torturing the Jews in Auschwitz concentration camps. So what is the main aim of all these charities? Susan Mubarak, as the president's wife, receives donations. They are actually disguised bribes from the entire world that reach on average $5 billions, per year for each charity. Susan Mubarak heads more than 100 main charities and this means that she receives donations at the value of $500 millions that are deposited in her personal account in Switzerland banks. Susan pushed to issue a military decision banning any civil society to receive donations from abroad so that she and her son Gamal can take all donations. 

Gamal, like his mother, likes the game of imaginary charities and donations. He has a big number of charities that receive millions each year including Future Generation and others. Susan learned that the Red Crescent receives donations from several organizations and she decided to seize it through heading it!!

Gamal Mubarak

A bully, drunkard, druggie (hash-shash) and is corrupted to the core like his mentor (father)

Both Alaa and Gamal Mubarak participate in a form of bribery and bullying with free shares that reach 50% in the capital of the biggest trade and industrial companies in Egypt. These companies, consequently, were about to face the danger of bankruptcy and collapse. A big number of workers were laid off which increased the unemployment and depression rates. 

However, Gamal and Alaa are partners, paying nothing. Yet, they are greedy to the extent that they do not have mercy with their partners. They do not consider depression and they reject excuses. They to have to be paid their share that reaches 50% in case of loss or gain. Of the companies in which Gamal and Alaa have shares at the rate of 50% for free: Malborough (Mansour), Scoda (Shafeek Gabr), El Ezz (Ahmad Ezz), Dream (Ahmad Bahgat), ART (Saleh Kamel), First (Kamel and Kholi), Movembic (Hussein Salem), Metro (Mansour), El Togari (Al Malawani), Vodafone (Nuseir), Siramica (Abu Einien), El Nasagoon (Khamis), Mobinil (Sawerus), Hyondai (Ghabour), Al Ahram for drinks (El Zaiyat), City Stars (El Sharbatly and Shokobkshi), Americana (Al Kharafi and Al Alfi), Chilis (Mansour Amer), Mcdonalds (Mansour and Sawerus) and others. 

Mubarak's sons opened banks for their partners to take many loans with no guarantees or a prosecution investigation like other debtors, though their due debts exceeded 50 billion pounds.

The two brothers have different free shares in other illegal business like money laundry with Al Shobokshi, Sharbatli, Saleh Kamel and Naser Al Kharafi, drug trafficking with Mansour brothers and sons of Esmat Al Sadat, monuments smuggling with Zahi Hawas, Farouk Hosni, Kamal Al Shazli, weapon trade with Kholi, Salem and others. Look other details here and there. 

Gamal Mubarak summarized the market in Egypt in 50-60 of his partners; businessmen and started to annoy the other business men who rejected to have a partnership with him either through fabricated charges, imprisoning them like Hussam Abu El Fettouh, Magdy Yakoub and others. He also may use taxes, customs and police against them, or he may kill them like the case of the late Hassan Yousef, the owner of Dolsi company for the sake of Labanita, owned by Mansour Family and Johaina, owned by Mamdouh Thabet, a relative of Susan Mubarak. He may also try to kill them like Mahmoud El Sherbeni, the owner of El Dekhila Iron, who rejected to have a partnership with Gamal Mubarak with a rate of 50%-50%. They, as a result, tried to kill him in a lorry accident and took the whole company for free and gave it to Ahmad Ezz, who was considered close to them. They issued a special nationality law for him as his father was working as a Palestinian retailer who started from scratch with his mother who worked as an Egyptian maid. 

Because of Gamal Mubarak's monopoly policy, the number of those who were dismissed from the markets while their factories were closed reached from 5 to 7 million workers who found no work till now leading to the current economic failure.

Gamal Mubarak, before taking a decision to suddenly reduce the value of the Egyptian pound at 53%, had advised his partners to convert their liquid money to dollars as their money would jump at the rate of 53% at once. Gamal, as a result, got a commission that reached half of the profits, which his partners gained. This greatly increased prices in an uncontrollable way, which, consequently, damaged economy. What is strange is that Mubarak's family thinks that people do not understand, those stupid and greedy people do not know that the first people to testify against them in internal and external trials are their partners. Every one that pays to the senior officials must speak out.

Corruption of Ministers

Greedy!

All the Egyptian ministers, since the blessed revolution, are corrupt. There are those that make use of their influence to seize others' properties and lands like Botres Ghali and Ibrahim Suliman. There are those that trade honor of his heads and other women like Safwat El Sheriff. There are also those that joined the president's two sons in deceiving people and selling them desert lands and even they received commissions like Ibrahim Suliman once again. There are also drug traffickers who joined Alaa and Gamal Mubarak like Habib Al Adeli and Botres Ghali. Concerning smuggling monuments and other banned items, there are Kamal Al Shazeli and Farouk Hosni. Concerning stocks, there are, certainly in addition to Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, Yousef Botres Ghali as they earned billions of illegal money of those junior enterprisers. What is really strange is that Hosni Mubarak did nothing to punish them, as he himself is a senior thief.

Hosni Mubarak, in a meeting with Third Army elements, two years ago, heard the complaints of a number of the young officers concerning the spread of corruption in the country and that the state took no serious action to get rid of corruption and punish those involved. Hosni Mubarak's response came as a surprise. He admitted being aware of the corruption among the ministers and all state officials. Yet, he added that they had enough and that is why he could not change them. Those that would replace them would loot in turn which would burden the state's budget. In brief, the president's words meant that he, as a gang head, would give reign to others to guarantee their loyalty, needless to explain the army's revolution!!

Police Corruption 

Private guarding is imposed on banks, associations, companies and other facilities in return for huge sums of money, shared by senior Interior Ministry officers. Each tourist must pay 20 dollars at entrance to Passport Police. There, is distinction in treatment inside prisons according to the paid bribes?

 Mad Dogs

Admission in Police Academy is done through bribes, people of influence and it is subject to non-objective criteria. Dozens of those victims resort to courts whose ruling are fully neglected. There is a permanent exception for the sons of those working or heading the police.  Ministers of Interior and the Anti-Drug Police commanders receive very profitable salaries from the most prominent of the drug traffickers like the families of Mohammed Mansour, Effat Al Sadat, Kotta, Abu Ghali and others. Al Nabawi Ismail, for example, when he ended his service as a minister, was having a sum of 55 million dollars in one of the Switzerland banks, out of drugs only. 

Zaki Badr accused Abdel Halim Moussa of being corrupt, and the latter responded in return accusing him of drug trafficking, and 6-Police in the industrial zones kidnap some of the workers and even regularly steal equipments from the factories. Police take those workers as hostages until the work owners receive them after paying money.

Police officers nowadays seize the street citizens' money using force. They hit those that object and even they drag them to the police station where they face fabricated charges, tortured or may be sexually assaulted. Police officers detain the relatives of the wanted elements, torturing and sexually assaulting them. 

They, in addition, get a monthly salary from drug traffickers, prostitutes and belly dancers. They sexually assault those in the deportees' car in case he or she does not pay for them. They bargain with those arrested for their honor though law bans the male officer to arrest or frisk the female. Making use of expansion policy in the provisional detention, they bargain with the detainees including businessmen and those rich people for their honor. One of the criminals will rape the one who would not pay a good sum daily at night. Police officers, on the other hand, help the drug traffickers in smuggling and marketing they banned items. They carry out bullying actions top scare the opponents of the one that pays more.

Employees of Suez Canal, customs and those working in the associations related to the Suez Canal really harm Egypt's reputation. They seize money, cigarettes and wine from each ferry that crosses the Suez Canal. Employees of districts and local governing are the most corrupt as they do not carry out their job duties except after being bribed. This provocative report agrees with what Dr. Zakariya Azzmi said that corrupt is of a wide abandon in local areas. They even carry out illegal activities when paid more. Violation of height starts from 100.000 pounds, facilities and service in a building, which construction violates law reaches 50.000 pounds. Editing complaints against your neighbors start from 5000 pounds, negligence of bulges starts from 5000 pounds. Other actions should be subject to agreements first.

 Egypt ruled by clowns. Beware of the fourth one!