Egypt's Supplies Minister Khaled Hanafy talks at his office in Cairo, Egypt, November 29, 2015. Picture taken November 29, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
CAIRO (Reuters) - A fact-finding commission investigating corruption in Egypt's domestic wheat supplies has delivered its final report to parliament, a lawmaker said on Monday, amid mounting pressure on the minister of supplies to resign.
Egypt, the world's largest importer of wheat, has been mired in controversy over whether much of the roughly 5 million tonnes of grain the government said it procured in this year's harvest exists only on paper, the result of local suppliers falsifying receipts to boost government payments.
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