Kefaya (enough) to cleanse Egypt! "Judicial and documentary file" "Corruption in Egypt…A dark cloud that does not vanish" Ibn Khaldoun "Introduction" Index Introduction to Hurt Egypt Corruption rules in Egypt " Corruption Government" (Corruptionistan) Egypt is a model example for the corruption phenomenon. First Section: The Political Regime Corruption Second Section: Corruption in Government Sectors: Agriculture – Investment – Banks – Culture- Health- Oil- Public Business Sector- Media. Third Section: The most well known corruption issues and its most well-known figures in Mubarak's Egypt. Fourth Section: Hidden Corruption. Conclusion: enough An outline f the most important elements of the press statement: 1-Seriousness of the issue, and spread of its phenomenon, and accidents. 2-Documentation of corruption crimes in both the present and the future of this nation since Mubarak assumed power in early 1980s. Being so many and hidden make us feel that corruption is bigger than our efforts and understanding during Mubarak's era. 3- Corruption in this report is a comprehensive phenomenon: there are various kinds of corruption; obvious, hidden, political, cultural, economic, social ….it even becomes a social law (status quo). 4- The report confirmed that corruption was the main reason for wasting several opportunities of development in addition to corrupt associations, brain drain, weak construction amid a high rate of only destruction and selling. Five relying on some cases that were settled while others are still pending due to the influence of defendants. Introduction to the Harmed Egyptian Nation! Corruption rules in Egypt "Corruption Government" (Corruptionistan)?! The main problem of corruption is not only related to the successive arrests of its figures who belong to or may be close to the ruling regime, such a series is no longer interesting as it has been repeated several times. Corruption has actually become a social law and a hidden behavior that would rule the different aspects of the Egyptian life. The political corruption is the basis of the political crime that continued for two decades and half – the period of the current regime – to violate freedoms, practice torture, construct detention camps and destroy institutions, emphasizing a state of emergency for 25 years. The economic corruption was, also, the cause of wasting several development opportunities in Egypt during the 25 years. Corruption became a ruling social law that corrupted tastes, ambitions and the spiritual value of justice, equality and equal opportunities among the Egyptian citizens. It also spoiled the society right criteria. We kept on watching this gloomy series everyday, the fall of senior and junior figures in all fields and in the different media and governmental institutions in this Mubarak's (certainly unblessed) era. It was natural in this era that Egypt would lose much of its media leadership when its economic drive was obstructed; favoritism spread with a negative influence on the economic and social development. The development rate dropped 2% currently against 4.6% two years ago. Depression dominated the Egyptian markets while citizen's purchase ability decreased. The interest rate problem led to the retreat of the Egyptian pound against the dollar. Competition increased between local products and those imported ones in addition to the few foreign investments in the country. The UNCTAD report on the international investment reported that the foreign investment decreased in Egypt from $600 millions to only $200 millions. Egypt was one of the most developing countries that was able to attract investment in the 1980s. There is also a rising rate of unemployment and poverty. Official statistics said that the number of the unemployed in Egypt rose from 112.535 in 1950 to 5 millions in early 2004, meaning that the number of the unemployed increased at a rate of 4000% in the last 54 years, in case of these statistics are authentic. If the successive governments were serious in confronting unemployment, the unemployed rate would not have risen from 1.2% in 1950 to reach 3.4% in 1970, 7.10% in 1986, 11.1% in 1990 and 13% early this year. The current unemployment rate in Egypt meant that it exceeded limits, as economic studies agreed that the safe rate of the unemployment in any society should range at 4.3%only. Concerning poverty, The World Bank report in 2003 indicated that 52% of the Egyptians were living with less than two dollars daily and that about 23% were living under poverty line. It was not either serious or joking; it has to do with the corruption that characterized the successive governments during Mubarak's era. Every day, we hear of a new corruption crime or the arrest of a big corruption figure. Killing a citizen in the police station or drowning hundreds in the sea is not the first while suppressing the elites in central Cairo is not the last as well. Such series of corruption cases only confirm that a desire to reform such a worn out regime represents only a camouflage and a justification to keep the current regime as it is, maintaining absolute tyranny and corruption! Corruption is the opposite of reform; it is the tyranny of those people having power. The most important of its modern features is corrupt state, cheating, bribery, fraud in dealings. Moroccans interpret corruption as bribery, which Ibn Al Atheir identified it as "reaching the target through compliment". No body will be able to construct the modern developed state except through providing a regime that guarantees necessary punishment to curb corruption and corrupt people. Kefaya, through this file, tolls the bell of power and favoritism. It warns that life in Egypt is closely linked to the ability to cope with the ruling corruption in the different fields. One of the foreign observers said in one word; "living in Egypt is living under corruption" . Amid the repeated corruption cases in the country, Ahmad Ragab suggested a new term "corruptionistan". He says: "such a government is the only one that does not respond to reports of the Auditing Organization. Concerning losses of Abu Tartour phosphate, there are 10 billions which were stolen and the government did not search for the felon. It also did not respond to reports of Dr. Gawdat Malt concerning squandering other 10 billions with no justified reasons and without taking the approval of the People's Assembly. The good news is that corruption is now organized in corruptionistan as there is a big corrupt figure, there is a great one, a good one, an aide and another intern ". It is one word that summarizes all our sad feelings. Corruption became the daily crime against such a nation and its citizens, carried out by its rulers. Corruption is found as long as there is tyranny. There are corrupt people everywhere. Rooting out corruption requires getting rid of its roots. Is it reasonable that the Emergency Law no.162 of the year 1958 became the real constitution in the country? The consequences of the political monopoly appeared obviously in the economic performance. Parasite capitalism appeared suddenly with no work or effort, and it became obvious in seizing bank money and smuggling it abroad. Amid an increasing monopoly of power, economic activities decreased, which destroyed the new producers and small enterprisers as people of power and influence controlled the whole market. A corrupt class appeared in consequence, consisting of the parasite capitalism and a number of ministers, in addition to the inflated profits. This led us to talk about the other economic internal factors represented in corruption that broke out in the country in its different forms either political, parliamentary, administrative, party, moral..etc. Recently appeared is a kind of corruption related to businessmen loans from banks. This forced us to ask about who is responsible, whether they were bank officials who allowed businessmen to take loans without enough guarantees amid conditions while the first party lacked honesty? Or the one responsible was the businessman who deceived the bank and offered imaginary guarantees? Or the government was the one responsible as it did not discover the problem since the beginning, tackling it only in the proper time to achieve some political gains? Or may be the absence of transparency and interrogation were responsible. A year hasn't passed yet after his election campaign and he broke all his promises – which deceived some whereas others propagated for them – especially those concerning freedoms, political and constitutional reform. Some wondered whether the president forgot his promises or this was an expected thing from such a regime. What was really confirmed, and it was recorded in history, was that the ruling dictatorships rejected, till the end, any kind of advice. It even rejected to consider reason and logic, till it was shocked by those free voices that rocked its castle which was thought to be fortified". Does Egypt's state describe corruption exactly as its rulers describe lying ?! Egypt's state under Mubarak's regime is an embodiment of corruption; it is even an applied model that is getting obvious every day to identify the meaning of corruption whose concepts and aspects are getting wider. It finds its safe haven in Egypt. This would be clearer when interpreting the definition of corruption, its aspects and the most important features. It is difficult to find a comprehensive preventive definition of the word corruption. Corruption is not a logical concept, it is a phenomenon and an octopod behavior that could not be curbed once growing amid the ruling regime, while protecting and being protected by the ruler. International Transparency Organization previously defined it 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".