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[Chris Pearson]

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/mp-sorour-dismissed-parliament


"MP Sorour dismissed from parliament
Mohamed Abdel Kadir

Parliament's legislative committee on Tuesday agreed to dismiss Hani Sorour, an MP who fled the country following a three-year prison sentence for selling defective blood bags to hospitals.

The committee members cast their votes after reaching quorum so as not to give Sorour a chance to contest the vote.

MP Gamal Zahran criticized committee president Amal Othman for not attending the session. "She didn't come because she is part of Sorour's defense team," he said.

MP Omar el-Taher requested the deletion of Zahran's comment from the meeting minutes. "Othman is in Geneva on an official mission," el-Taher said, asserting that she is not part of Sorour's defense."
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[Chris Pearson]

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/bad-blood-govt-corruption-beyond-cure

"Meanwhile, numerous allegations of official corruption have continued to surface with alarming regularity.

One of these is MP Hani Sorour. The CEO of a medical supplies company, Sorour has been charged with supplying 300,000 bags of contaminated blood worth some LE4 million. This month, Sorour's parliamentary immunity was stripped and his parliamentary membership withdrawn following a vote of no-confidence at the hands of the assembly.

The Sorour case exposed a vast web of inefficiency--and likely corruption--after it emerged that the bad blood had been approved by the Health Ministry's National Organization for Drug Control and Research. The blood was later distributed to hospitals--with Sorour ignoring rampant complaints from hospital officials regarding the low quality of the blood and the bags that contained it.

Although subsequent investigations were marked by false testimony, lies and bribe taking, according to reports, Sorour was ultimately sentenced--in absentia--to three years in prison in November 2009. The controversy had first began some two years earlier. "
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"There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper." John Ruskin