CAIRO, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian deputy governor along with five businessmen have been busted for being involved in corrupt activities including bribery, profiteering and looting public funds, an official anti-corruption body said in a statement on Monday.
The Administrative Control Authority (ACA) added that the lady deputy of Alexandria governor received a bribe of about one million Egyptian pounds (over 56,000 U.S. dollars) from some businessmen to stop a removal decision of illegally constructed buildings on state-owned lands.
"She would also spare the businessmen paying the fines for such violations, which amount to 10 million Egyptian pounds (over 560,000 dollars)," said the ACA statement.
The case is part of a massive anti-corruption campaign launched by Egypt over the past few years that led to the arrest and imprisonment of several officials and senior employees and the retrieval of large amounts of public money.
In February, an Egyptian court sentenced a former irrigation minister to seven years in prison over corruption related to illegal sales of agricultural lands for construction.
Earlier in January, the authorities arrested the finance minister's former adviser for receiving 1 million Egyptian pounds from a contractor as part of a larger bribe for mispricing a state-owned land.
A former agriculture minister and his deputy were also sentenced to 10 years in prison over receiving bribes to grant state-owned land licenses to a business tycoon last year.
