Egypt ex-auditor’s daughter says presidential decree ordered her prosecution dismissal

Daughter of Egypt’s fired top auditor Hisham Geneina said on Monday she had been sacked by the Administrative Prosecution Authority pursuant to a presidential decree, denying reports linking her dismissal to a Facebook post and mistakes at work.

Shorouk Geneina stressed in a Facebook statement that her Monday dismissal came “for no apparent reason.”

“Today while I was at work I was surprised by a call from the inspection department of the Administrative Prosecution asking for my attendance to inform me of a decision by the president, number 242 in the year of 2016 [which ordered] my dismissal,” she said.

In earlier statements to ONA news agency, Shorouk was quoted as saying that she had been referred to a disciplinary committee over sharing a Facebook post criticising former minister of justice Ahmed El-Zend.

However, Shorouk, who was appointed to a post in the Administrative Prosecution Authority in 2014, stressed that her dismissal wasn’t disciplinary.

“I knew that there were rumors being circulated […] that the decision of my sacking is down to catastrophic mistakes at work, which is a completely false claim,” she said.

“Others alleged that my sacking was over a post I shared on my personal Facebook page four months ago about the former justice minister, which was an incident that I was questioned over and no penalties were imposed on me at the time.”

El-Zend had previously attacked Shorouk’s father, the former head of Central Auditing Authority, publicly several times, accusing him of being a tool of the Muslim Brotherhood after he told the media that there had been massive corruption within the judiciary.

Her father Hisham was removed from his post in March by a presidential decree, and then referred to trial on charges of spreading “false news” in relation to his comments about the extent of corruption in Egypt.

He had stated in press interviews in 2015 that corruption in public institutions, including the judiciary and the police, between 2010 and 2015, has cost Egypt as much as EGP600 billion.

Early this month, Hisham was briefly detained over the charges he faces before being released on bail. He initially refused to pay bail because he did not believe he committed a crime, according to his lawyer Ali Taha.

source: Ahram Online