Prosecution orders remanding finance minister's adviser in custody in bribery case

Higher State Security Prosecution Attorney General Khaled Diaaeddin Sunday ordered remanding three defendants, including the finance minister's adviser for real estate taxes affairs, four days pending investigations in a bribery case.

The adviser is facing charges of bribery in return for the devaluation of a tourist resort land and the other defendants are accused of offering and mediating a bribe.

The three were arrested red-handed offering a one-million-pound bribe to the adviser as part of a sum of four-million-pound. The crime would have wasted the state treasury around EGP 500 million.

Source: MENA