Counselor Adly Gad, head of the Administrative Prosecution Authority, ordered the referral of both the former head of the Central Administration of Land Ports at the General Authority for Land and Dry Ports, and the former head of the Board of Directors of the General Authority for Land and Dry Ports, to disciplinary trial.
This was due to the damage to the funds and interests of the General Authority for Land and Dry Ports. After they purchased insurance devices for the ports of the Authority without studying their actual needs, which led to an increase in the number of these devices, which resulted in financial damage estimated at an amount exceeding (nine million US dollars).
The technical office of the head of the authority for investigations, headed by Counselor / Muhammad Al-Saeed Fawzi, had received a communication from the General Authority for Land and Dry Ports; To determine the responsibility of the Authority’s specialists for purchasing insurance devices for the Authority’s ports without studying their actual needs, as the investigations conducted by Mr. Ibrahim Suleiman – Chief Prosecutor, under the supervision of Counselor/ Tariq Saudi, resulted in the aforementioned defendants, each according to his competence, preparing two statements including the Authority’s need For 188 insurance devices and the conclusion of a contract with a company to purchase insurance devices for ports by direct agreement for an amount exceeding (twenty-seven million US dollars), without following the contracting methods prescribed by the Tenders and Auctions Law No. 89 of 1998 and its amendments, and without obtaining the approval of the Prime Minister to contract despite exceeding Its value to the financial authorities vested in it under the law, and without conducting a study of the authority’s needs for those devices, which resulted in an increase in the number of 68 devices over its actual needs, in an amount exceeding nine million US dollars, in addition to not writing the contract in Arabic and only writing it in English, in violation of the regulations applicable.
-Investigations also proved that the ports affiliated with the authority were provided with what they needed of these devices, with 120 devices, and 68 devices remain in excess of the actual needs, with a value exceeding (nine million US dollars), and in an attempt to redress the damage to public money, the authority, in agreement with the supplier company , by dispensing with the implementation of the contract for 23 devices before the supply and returning 2 devices after the supply, and selling 25 devices to the Egyptian Airports Company and Cairo Air Port, and the authority has left 18 devices with a value of more than (two million US dollars), which could not be disposed of due to lack of The body needs it.
-By presenting the results of the investigations to Counselor Adly Gad – Chairman of the Commission, His Excellency ordered the referral of all the accused to disciplinary trial.
It also ordered the Public Prosecution to inform the Public Prosecution to carry out its affairs regarding the criminal offenses that resulted from the investigations, and to instruct the administration to quickly dispose of the rest of the insurance devices that are in excess of their actual needs in accordance with the provisions of the law and regulations regulating this matter, and to conduct a study on how to refer to the accused for the damages resulting from the incident and to act accordingly. Its light is a guide to what the disciplinary ruling ends.
