Faisal Abbas 
The Cairo Criminal Court, held in the Fifth Settlement, today, Sunday, sentenced to 7 years imprisonment for 17 accused in the case known in the media as customs bribery.
The ruling was issued under the chairmanship of Counselor Mahmoud Al -Sayed Al -Kaki, membership of Advisors Osama Mohamed Ali, Counselor Abdel Azim Sadiq Khalifa and Chancellor Khaled Abdul Rahman Salem.
The Public Prosecution decided to refer 17 accused, including the Director General of the Free Markets, the Cairo Customs Sector and the agent of a branch in one of the prominent import and export companies, a branch manager, references, financial affairs specialist and 7 customs officers, and the owner of the Al -Daadi Contracting Corporation and others for trial, to take over the amount of 10 million and 791 thousand and 700 pounds as a bribe in exchange for giving goods and cigarettes without paying their tax To take over them for their benefit.
The penalty for bribery:
The penalty for the crime of bribery varies from one incident to another, whether the bribed person is a public employee, or an ordinary person, and the law stipulates the penalty for bribery from Article 103 to Article 111 of the Penal Code.
Article 103
Every general employee asked for himself or for others or before or taking a promise or gift to perform a work of his job that is considered a manner and is punished with life imprisonment and a fine of no less than a thousand pounds and does not exceed what was given or promised.
Article 104
Each general employee asked himself or for others or before or taking a promise or gift to refrain from a job from his job or to violate its duties or to reward him for what happened from that of this is punished with life imprisonment and the weakness of the fine mentioned in Article 103 of this law.
Article 105
Every public employee before a person who performed a job of his job or refrained from performing a work of her work or violating her duties, a gift or gift after that work was completed or abstained from him or a violation of the duties of his job with the intention of rewarding this and without a previous agreement shall be punished with imprisonment and a fine of no less than one hundred pounds and not more than five hundred pounds.
Article 106
Each user asked for himself or for others or before or taking a promise or gift without the knowledge of his servants and his satisfaction to perform one of the work assigned to it or to refrain from it is considered to be firm and punished with imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years and a fine of no less than two hundred pounds and not exceeding five hundred pounds or one of these two penalties.
Article 107
It is like a promise or gift every benefit that the bribery or the person who appointed him to do so has to do so and agreed with it, whatever its name or type, and whether this benefit is material or non -material.
Article 108
If the purpose of bribery is to commit an act punishable by the law with a punishment more than the punishment prescribed for bribery, then the briber, the bribe and the mediator shall be punished with the penalty prescribed for that act with the fine prescribed for bribery, and the briber or the mediator is exempt from the punishment if he informs the authorities of the crime according to the text of the last paragraph of Article 48 of this law.
Article 109
From a bribe offer and did not accept it, he is punished with imprisonment and a fine of no less than five hundred pounds and not exceeding one thousand pounds, if the offer is a public employee.
Article 110
In all cases, it is governed by the confiscation of what the briber or mediator pays as a bribe according to the previous materials.
Article 111
It is considered the ruling on employees in the application of the texts of this chapter:
1. Users of the government’s interests or under its control.
2. Members of the Parliamentary or Local Parliamentary Councils, whether they are elected or specific.
3. Arbitrators or experts, religion agents, liquidators and judicial guards.
4. Every person in charge of public service.
5. Members of the boards of directors, managers and users of institutions, companies, associations, organizations and establishments if the state or one of the public bodies contributes to its money with a share of any capacity.
