Latest in Tag: CAO Highlight
Latest in Tag: CAO

CAO detects EGP 1.7bn not supplied by Egypt’s special funds in 2017
Income, VAT revenues in first quarter of current FY exceeded target

Central Auditing Organisation improved performance of governmental sector: Al-Sisi
Authority was established in 1942 by Royal Declaration No. 52

Former CAO head loses appeal in court, receives suspended sentence
Hisham Geneina’s one-year suspended term upheld over false news charges

Hisham Geneina’s appeal adjourned to 10 November
Former CAO head is appealing against his prison sentence

Former top auditor’s appeal session adjourned to 20 October
Hisham Geneina was sentenced to prison over “false claims” of the amount of corruption in Egypt

Court to announce its decision on appeal against imprisonment of Hisham Geneina in October
Executives’ exercising control over regulatory bodies is hindering these organisations’ main task, says Geneina

HRW denounces verdict against former top auditor
International watchdog calls on Egypt to drop case against Geneina, considering it a violation of free speech

Verdict against Hisham Geneina violates his right to a fair trial: defence lawyer
Court convicted Geneina before listening to the defence’s judicial pleas

Former top auditor sentenced to 1 year in prison
Hisham Geneina was order to pay EGP 10,000 bail and EGP 20,000 as a fine by the court

83 cases of ministerial corruption in June: report
They include 17 ministries, according to Partners for Transparency

Daughter of Hisham Geneina to take legal action against her dismissal
Shorouk Genena was arbitrarily dismissed from her position in the Administrative Prosecution Authority

Dismissal of Hisham Geneina’s daughter from Administrative Prosecution remains ambiguous
Presidential decree dismissed Shorouk Geneina from her job a few days after her father was referred to trial

Parliament approves new CAO head following Geneina’s expulsion
The new head of the Central Auditing Organisation, Hisham Badawy, previously worked as a prosecutor at the supreme state security prosecution

Corruption reports continue despite Al-Sisi’s assertions of combating graft
Transparency organisation counted 101 cases of corruption in state ministries in May 2016

Hisham Geneina’s statements on corruption are inaccurate: State Security Prosecution
Former top auditor was referred to trial on Tuesday and a media gag order has been put in place until the trial begins

Geneina released from detention after paying bail
The former chief of the Central Auditing Agency (CAO) is facing charges of harming the economy and disrupting public order

Former top auditor Hisham Geneina refuses to pay bail, referred to trial
Geneina is facing charges of harming the economy and disrupting public order.

State security prosecution continues investigating former top auditor Geneina
Geneina has repeatedly stated that the aforementioned statements referred to a study conducted by the CAO, in cooperation with the Ministry of Planning.

Appeal against his dismissal submitted, Geneina requests to join Lawyers Syndicate
Al-Sisi issued a decree in July 2015 that gave him the power to dismiss, replace, and appoint heads of regulatory bodies, despite the Constitution guaranteeing their independence from the state’s executive branch

Former top auditor believes ‘corruption lobby’ is behind his dismissal
Hisham Geniena is considering appealing Al-Sisi’s dismissal decree

The adversity of Hesham Geneina: Facts withheld behind political polarisation dust
There has been controversy in the Egyptian political and media scenes. This time, it was caused by media statements made by Hesham Geneina, head of the Central Auditing Organisation (CAO), the most important regulatory body in Egypt. Geneina claimed corruption within government institutions cost Egypt over EGP 600bn in 2015 before he sent out a correction …
Presidency investigates head of CAO’s statements on corruption
Al-Sisi is following in Mubarak’s footsteps in terms of corruption, says economic expert

CAO not entitled to reopen ‘Presidential Palaces’ embezzlement case: Official
Since the case was adjudicated in court, the agency is not entitled to address it, says former deputy

Large number of funds, little information reduces citizens’ turnout to donate: Experts
Farhet Misr Fund should be subject to supervision by Central Auditing Organization (CAO), says banking expert Basant Fahmy

Corruption case against Shoukry proceeds to State Commissioners Authority
Case argues that FM misused public money by establishing fund for foreign diplomats

New report highlights expansion of presidential powers
EIPR argues that President’s decree to remove independent bodies’ heads poses threat to accountability, effective governance

Constitutionality of presidential decree on regulatory bodies challenged
CAO members’ club made move in objection to recently issued law for violating independence of organisation and its members

Off the books – Egypt’s hidden $9.4bn
Daily News Egypt speaks with the journalists behind an investigation that claims to have documented officials siphoning vast sums of public money to top-up salaries and maintain networks of political allegiances
100,000 cases of administrative and financial corruption: Administrative Prosecution Authority
Some authorities reject jurisdiction of Administrative Prosecution Authority, says APA vice president