The Public Prosecution confirmed the incorrectness of the news circulated yesterday on social media and some different news sites, claiming that judges in the North Cairo Court were arrested and held in pretrial detention pending accusations of bribery, as the news is nothing but a false rumor, and that the correct statement in the incident is to inform One of the judges reported that the circuit secretary offered his presidency a bribe in return for issuing decisions releasing suspects in cases before the circuit. The judge refused the bribe and reported the incident.
The judge had written a memorandum to the Public Prosecution that included informing him of the incident, after which the investigations of the Administrative Control Authority confirmed the validity of the report, and that the accused secretary had agreed with lawyers to offer the bribe to the judge, and also requested that the secretary took a bribe from the lawyers in return for manipulating the case documents entrusted him.
Accordingly, the Public Prosecution took its measures and obtained the necessary permission from the Supreme Judicial Council to monitor and record the conversations and meetings between the reporting judge and the accused secretary. The accused, during a meeting prepared for him, presented the amount of the bribe to the judge who accompanied him and lured him to the meeting, where the accused was seized and the amount of the bribe in his possession.
The remaining defendants were arrested in accordance with the order of the Public Prosecution, and their interrogation resulted in their acknowledgment of the bribery incidents, and investigations are ongoing.
On the occasion of that case, the Public Prosecution calls upon all, and in the forefront, the specialized news organizations to investigate the accuracy of the information they publish on the cases in which the Public Prosecution is conducting investigations, and to abide by what the Public Prosecution alone announces regarding its facts and procedures, which some people insert with the intention of false information and circulated by these institutions. After that, to offend the Egyptian judiciary and its bodies, which the Public Prosecution will not tolerate in addressing it and prosecuting its perpetrators in accordance with the provisions of the law.
The Public Prosecution also affirms that the ancient Egyptian judiciary, which is honored to be an integral part of it, is above what some are trying, with the ill intention of promoting it and corrupting its image. Towards establishing justice, giving rights and redressing grievances.