This in-depth cross-border independent investigation looks at the monopoly of the Egyptian Armed Forces and the General Intelligence Directorate on government projects and public works, often charging higher prices than private companies and profiting in ways that some experts say are illegal.
The army also "plays the role of project manager by awarding projects to private sector subcontractors who have no choice but to accept the army's prices and sometimes take losses and work for free," added Sayigh, who directs the Carnegie Programme on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States.
"The army uses these projects to finance the army budget and the national budget with billions of pounds, but they don't announce it because of national security," says an Egyptian lawyer close to the Egyptian regime.
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