Security and Crime

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  • Security source comments on policeman assault on taxi driver

    Date: 2018-07-10 21:28:27 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:96 - ID:7482895

    CAIRO, July 10 (MENA) – A security source on Tuesday commented on video footage purporting to show a policeman assaulting a taxi driver in Alexandria. The video, that recently went viral on social media, is related to an incident that occurred on ....

  • Murder of three children in Giza being investigated - security source

    Date: 2018-07-10 14:21:25 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:68 - ID:7482126

    GIZA, Egypt, July 10 (MENA) - An Interior Ministry team has been formed to probe the mysterious murder of three children in Giza governorate, an official source said Tuesday. Giza security authorities acted promptly to investigate the murder ....

  • Gang arrested with 484 antiquities, large archaeological cache

    Date: 2018-07-10 12:40:50 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:48 - ID:7481896

    CAIRO, July 10 (MENA) - A gang of antiquities thieves was arrested in Minya, Upper Egypt, on Tuesday while trying to rob a large archaeological site. They had 484 pieces of antiquities in their possession. The gang of seven men was arrested in ....

  • police arrest 50 suspects of bribery, embezzlement

    Date: 2018-07-09 15:29:11 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:58 - ID:7480733

    CAIRO, July 9 (MENA) - Ministry of Interior's public funds crimes investigation department has arrested 50 suspects over bribery, embezzlement, seizure of public money and illegal foreign exchange trading in a week. All legal measures were taken ....

  • Bid to smuggle banned bullets thwarted at Cairo airport

    Date: 2018-07-08 21:38:31 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:87 - ID:7479582

    CAIRO, July 8 (MENA) - The Customs Department of Cairo International Airport on Sunday foiled an attempt to smuggle a quantity of banned bullets into the country. About 21 bullets were found in possession of a US passenger coming from Rome. ....

  • Civil servant, businesswoman in custody over fraud in Qena

    Date: 2018-07-08 20:43:15 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:82 - ID:7479537

    QENA, Egypt, July 8 (MENA) – The director of purchasing department at Qena University Hospital and a businesswoman were remanded in custody for 15 days pending investigations over forgery and looting public funds charges. The suspects are ....

  • Retrial of 33 defendants in Ramses incidents case delayed to Sept. 16

    Date: 2018-07-05 15:38:23 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:68 - ID:7474905

    CAIRO, July 5 (MENA) - The Cairo Criminal Court on Thursday adjourned till September 16 the retrial of 33 defendants in the case of El Fateh Mosque incidents. The court postponed the retrial to hear the defense's arguments. Sentences ranging ....

  • 1,036 prisoners pardoned on Eidul Fitr

    Date: 2018-07-04 16:41:10 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:71 - ID:7473488

    CAIRO, July 4 (MENA) - The Interior Ministry's prison department released 394 prisoners who had been pardoned on the occasion of Eidul Fitr. The Interior Ministry, in a statement on Wednesday, said the prison department also found that 642 ....

  • Bid to smuggle 1,294 narcotic pills foiled at Cairo airport

    Date: 2018-07-04 15:25:42 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:63 - ID:7473362

    CAIRO, July 4 (MENA) - The security department at Cairo International Airport thwarted on Wednesday an attempt to smuggle 1,294 Tramadol pills. Authorities at the airport suspected bags of a passenger that was on board of a flight heading for ....

  • Monofiya security ends vendetta between two families in Khatatba village

    Date: 2018-07-02 07:30:05 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:11 - ID:7468928

    SHEBIN EL KOM, July 2 (MENA) - Monofiya security authority managed to settle a vendetta between two families in Khatatba village. In April, the Monofiya security directorate was notified of a feud between two families in Khatatba village, leaving ....

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