Wednesday 21/January/2026 – 02:38 PM
Imam Al-Hafnawi, the lawyer of the first defendant, head of the Central Administration for Water Resources and Irrigation in Menoufia Governorate, filed an appeal against his imprisonment in the Ministry of Irrigation bribery case after they were convicted of committing incidents of bribery, abuse of influence, and harming public funds, for the accusations contained in the referral order.
The head of water resources in Menoufia appeals his prison sentence in the Ministry of Irrigation bribery case
The Cairo Criminal Court, held at the gathering, ruled to punish six defendants in the Ministry of Irrigation bribery case with aggravated imprisonment for a period of time. decade For each of them, after being convicted of committing incidents of bribery, abuse of influence, and harming public funds, for the charges contained in the referral order.
The defendants in the Ministry of Irrigation bribery case were placed under police surveillance for 5 years and removed from their jobs
The court also decided to sign Large financial fines The defendants were charged a total of several million pounds, with fines ranging from tens of thousands to tens of thousands One million three hundred and fifty thousand poundswith the defendants obligated to pay jointly.
Deprivation of all civil rights and benefits, removal from princely positions, and placing the convicts under police surveillance for a period of five years after the end of the sentence and obligating them to pay criminal expenses.
In return, the court issued a rulingSix other defendants were exempted from punishmentBecause the accusation against them was not proven, in confirmation of the principle that punishment is only imposed on those whose guilt is proven with certainty.
The referral order revealed that the first defendant, in his capacity as a public employee and head of the Central Administration for Water Resources and Irrigation in Menoufia Governorate, accepted and took gifts for himself to perform one of his job duties, by accepting and taking from the seventh defendant an amount of fifty thousand pounds as a bribe through the eleventh defendant, in exchange for preparing reports on the averted business notes in preparation for disbursing the financial dues for them.
Likewise, in his aforementioned capacity, he accepted and took for himself a gift to perform an act of his office; That he accepted and took from the eighth defendant an amount of five thousand pounds as a bribe in exchange for preparing reports on the work notes that were avoided, the subject of the previous paragraph, in preparation for disbursing the financial dues.
Also, in his aforementioned capacity, he requested and took gifts for himself to perform one of his job duties by requesting and taking from the ninth and tenth defendants the sum of twenty-four thousand pounds, as a bribe, in exchange for preparing reports on the averted business notes subject to Paragraph (1) in preparation for disbursing the financial dues for them.
As for the second defendant, in his capacity as a public employee and member of a judicial body, he requested and took a gift for himself to perform one of the duties of his position. As a bribe in exchange for his issuance of a decision in Case No. 279 of 2023 to form a committee to examine the rehabilitation work of the canals owned by his company in the Ashmoun Center in preparation for disbursing the financial dues to it, and the third defendant, in his capacity as a public employee and head of the central administration of the West Delta Drainage Region, accepted from a person the work of his position as Atiya after its completion with the intention of rewarding him for that and without a previous agreement; That he accepted from the eighth defendant an amount of one hundred thousand pounds after he had fully approved the final extracts related to the rehabilitation and dredging of the Public Bank and the establishment of emergency units at Lake Wadi Marbout in Nubariya assigned to his company.
