12:22 PM
Saturday 28 May 2022
Books – Ahmed Adel:
4 defendants in the case of “bribery of the Ministry of Health” arrived at the Cairo Criminal Court, held in the Fifth Settlement, today, Saturday, to attend their trial sessions, and the court is scheduled to complete hearing the prosecution witnesses.
The Public Prosecutor, Hamada Al-Sawy, had referred the four accused to the criminal trial; For the first accused to ask for 5 million pounds, 600,000 pounds was taken from him, as a bribe from the owners of a private hospital, mediated by other defendants, in exchange for using his influence to obtain from officials at the Ministry of Health decisions and benefits related to not implementing the decision to close the hospital for its management without a license, and preparing a false report Contrary to the truth, it is proven that there were no violations in it, and the fourth accused was charged with committing that forgery.
The case papers included evidence derived from the statements of 13 witnesses, including the two owners of the hospital, who informed the Administrative Control Authority of the bribery incident upon its request, and took the bribe with the permission of the Public Prosecution until his arrest was complete.
The evidence in the case also included the statements of the two defendants who mediated the bribery, examining the accused’s seized mobile phones and the correspondence that confirmed the commission of the incident, as well as the Public Prosecution’s review of all examination reports of the hospital, both valid and forged, and bank documents proving the fact that the case was submitted. The amount of the bribe, in addition to what was confirmed by the Public Prosecution’s witnessing and listening to the meeting and conversations that were authorized to be recorded.
