Daily Mail Egypt retires 31 judges for opposing Islamist's ouster Egypt's state-run news agency says the top judicial disciplinary council has rejected appeals by 31 judges who were forced into early retirement for rejecting the military overthrow of an Islamist president. MENA said Monday that the judges are members of the "Judges for Egypt" movement, which opposed the military overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi, who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood. The group is accused of having violated impartiality rules by getting involved in politics. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3512875/Egypt-retires-31-judges-opposing-Islamists-ouster.html#ixzz44GiCW5lq AP Egypt dismisses top auditor after estimating corruption Egypt's state-run news agency says the president has dismissed the country's top auditor who earlier had said corruption has cost the country billions of dollars. The MENA news agency said Monday that President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi had dismissed Hesham Genena, head of the Central Auditing Organization, and appointed Genena's top deputy, Hesham Badawi, to run the agency. Genena was quoted in December by the newspaper Youm 7 as saying that corruption had siphoned off 600 billion Egyptian pounds ($67.6 billion) in 2015 alone. He later said that the figure covered four years and was arrived at following an exhaustive study. Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-dismisses-top-auditor-estimating-003009053.html
