Counselor Adly Gad, head of the Administrative Prosecution Authority, ordered the referral of the former head of the Central Department of Land Ports at the General Authority for Land and Dry Ports, and the former chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Authority for Land and Dry Ports, to disciplinary trial.
Referring officials of the central administration for trial
This came against the backdrop of harming the funds and interests of the General Authority for Land and Dry Ports. Following the purchase of 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 more than 9 million US dollars.
The technical office of the head of the authority for investigations, headed by Counselor Muhammad Al-Saeed Fawzi, 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 its actual needs, as the investigations conducted by 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 a conclusion He contracted with a company to purchase insurance devices for the ports by direct agreement for an amount exceeding 27 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 on the contract despite its value exceeding the financial powers vested in him by virtue of 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, at an amount exceeding 9 million US dollars, in addition to not writing the contract in Arabic and only writing it in English, in violation of the applicable regulations.
-Investigations also proved that the ports affiliated with the authority were provided with what they needed of these devices, 120 devices, and 68 devices remain in excess of the actual needs, with a value exceeding 9 million US dollars. About the implementation of the contract for 23 devices before the supply and the return of 2 devices after the supply, and the sale of 25 devices to the Egyptian Airports Company and Cairo Air Port, and the authority has 18 devices left, with a value of more than 2 million US dollars, which could not be disposed of because the authority did not need them.
-By presenting the results of the investigations to Counselor Adly Gad, the head of the commission, he 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 ends with the disciplinary ruling.
