Security and Crime

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  • Cairo court to consider possible pre-trial freeze on wheat case defendants' assets

    Date: 2016-08-06 18:03:58 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:61 - ID:5383885

    CAIRO, Aug 6 (MENA) - Cairo Criminal Court will consider Sunday a demand submitted by the Prosecutor General to impose a pre-trial freeze on the assets of 15 defendants charged with wheat procurement corruption. The prosecution investigations ....

  • Former mufti survives attempt on life

    Date: 2016-08-05 11:45:32 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:30 - ID:5377681

    CAIRO, Aug 5 (MENA) - Former mufti of Egypt Dr. Ali Gomaa has survived an attempt on his life on Friday. Two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at Gomaa as he was entering a mosque in the 6th of October City to perform Friday congregational ....

  • 32 fugitives arrested in North Sinai

    Date: 2016-08-05 07:02:18 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:9 - ID:5376453

    El ARISH, Egypt, Aug 5 (MENA) – Security forces arrested 32 fugitives and wanted elements involved in different cases in North Sinai. The arrests came within the framework of tightened security measures and continued security campaigns to arrest ....

  • Recruit killed, 11 injured in Aswan car accident

    Date: 2016-08-04 06:13:22 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:7 - ID:5370885

    ASWAN, Upper Egypt, Aug 4 (MENA) - A recruit was killed and 11 others were injured in a police car accident in Aswan on Thursday. The dead was identified as 21-year-old Kamel Ragab Ibrahim. Medics rushed to the scene and carried the dead to an ....

  • French embassy thanks interior ministry for restoring French woman belongings

    Date: 2016-08-03 15:10:31 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:73 - ID:5368713

    CAIRO, Aug 3 (MENA) - The French Embassy in Cairo thanked the Egyptian Interior Ministry for bringing back a French woman's stolen belongings. The 23-year-old thief, who had been previously charged with blackmail, was arrested by the security ....

  • Man arrested for illegal trading in foreign currency

    Date: 2016-08-03 13:31:42 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:62 - ID:5367825

    CAIRO, Aug 3 (MENA) - A man was arrested on Wednesday for involvement in illegal trading in foreign currency. Hazem H. was arrested while exchanging foreign currency with two other persons. The three admitted trading in foreign currency outside ....

  • Gunman killed in fire exchange with police in Minya

    Date: 2016-08-02 21:15:53 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:91 - ID:5364145

    CAIRO, Aug 2 (MENA) - A dangerous convicted felon was killed in a fire exchange with the police forces in Minya, the Interior Ministry said. The fugitive, Medhat Makhlouf 'Awf, was wanted on three charges and accused in 25 cases. He was shot ....

  • Child killed, 37 injured in rollover crash

    Date: 2016-08-02 18:36:55 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:84 - ID:5363613

    SUEZ, Aug 2 (MENA) - A young girl was announced dead Tuesday while 37 other people were pulled out injured from a mangled bus following a horrific rollover crash on Ain Sukhna - Suez highway. Twenty ambulances were called to the site but the ....

  • Police foil attempt to smuggle drugs into the country

    Date: 2016-08-02 11:44:31 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:35 - ID:5360341

    CAIRO, Aug 2 (MENA) - Police have foiled an attempt to smuggle 15 million narcotic pills into Egypt through the Sharq el Tafre'a Port. The anti-drug department had received a tip about a gang planning to bring a big shipment of narcotics into the ....

  • 2 arrested for illegal hard currency scheme

    Date: 2016-08-02 11:10:07 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:30 - ID:5360049

    CAIRO, Aug 2 (MENA) – Security forces arrested two persons who collected the earnings of Egyptian nationals abroad in hard currency and sold them to importers to benefit from the price difference in the black market. The two persons gathered the ....

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