Investigations by the state prosecution in the money laundering case of Mohamed Ibrahim Suleiman, former housing minister under Mubarak, revealed that in 2007 a company he registered abroad received a transfer of US$7 million from business tycoon (...)
The president of the Cairo Appeal Court has dispatched two judges to complete the prosecution investigations into clashes between the army and demonstrators in October.
The clashes took place in front of the state television building at Maspero in (...)
The cassation prosecution accepted the appeal submitted to it by the defense team of Hisham Talaat Mostafa, a business tycoon sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for ordering the killing of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim, judicial sources have (...)
The government under the former Mubarak regime stole land belonging to the Religious Endowments Ministry and built over it with new projects, Religious Endowments Minister Mohamed Abdel Fadil al-Qousy has said, adding that he knows nothing about (...)
Envoys from the US and Israeli embassies in Cairo visited alleged Israeli spy Ilan Grapel in prison on Tuesday, and told him that procedures for his release have been completed, and that he will leave Egypt in a week's time, say security (...)
The Justice Ministry on Monday ordered the investigation of former Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzoury and former Minister of Agriculture Youssef Wali.
The latter is currently detained for allegedly selling a public-sector company under the the (...)
The Cairo Criminal Court has, in absentia, sentenced fugitive business tycoon Hussein Salem, his fugitive son Khaled and his fugitive daughter Magda, to seven years imprisonment, and fined them US$4.6 billion for laundering money they earned from (...)
The Supreme State Security Prosecution on Tuesday summoned Ilan Grapel, an Israeli citizen accused of spying on Egypt, and charged him with inciting the vandalism of public property.
Judicial sources said the prosecution obtained video clips of (...)
In his testimony before the court on Monday, an eyewitness identified a police officer accused of shooting demonstrators on 29 January in the village of Kerdasa, during the uprising.
The court heard the testimonies of three eye-witnesses in the (...)
Gamal Mubarak, son of deposed President Hosni Mubarak, Atef Ebeid, the former prime minister, and nine former ministers, wasted some LE7 billion in privatizing 11 public-sector companies, said reports compiled by the Public Funds Prosecution and the (...)
Former Prime Minister Atef Ebeid and several former Agriculture Ministry officials were referred to the Cairo Criminal Court on Monday on charges of corruption relating to the illegal sale of land.
Among those officials facing charges are former (...)
During Mubarak's trial on Wednesday, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly wore a blue prison uniform, as he has already been convicted in two other cases. Mubarak wore a blue Lacoste tracksuit and lied on a bed, even though, according to Egyptian (...)
A number of lawyers representing revolutionary martyrs in the Mubarak murder trial have said they would consider demanding a change of judge and that prosecutors bring forth new witnesses in the case.
They claim new witnesses are needed, as several (...)
The retrial of the case against Islamic Jihad leaders known as “The Returnees from Albania” resumed on Monday.
The case, which is being tried in an Egyptian military court, held its second hearing against defendants Sayed Imam, Mohamed al-Zahahry (...)
A senior Egyptian judge has denied reports that the judge handling the trial of Egypt's toppled President Hosni Mubarak and his sons has been the victim of death threats since the trial began.
Sayyed Abdel Aziz Omar, the head of the Court of (...)
A date of 2 October has been set for the first hearing in the case of two men, one Israeli and one Jordanian, accused of spying against Egypt for the Israeli spy agency Mossad.
Bashar Ibrahim Abu Zeid, a Jordanian citizen, and Ofir Harari, an (...)
The State Security Prosecution on Sunday started investigating numerous complaints filed with the attorney general accusing a number of civil society organizations of receiving funds from foreign countries in violation of the law., judicial sources (...)
Security forces have discovered the corpses of 30 undocumented migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, north of Alexandria.
Preliminary reports said that young men from the governorates of Kafr al-Sheikh, Gharbiya, Damietta and Alexandria drowned while (...)
The Cairo Court of Appeal is to convene on 11 September for the trial of 25 people accused of inciting attacks on protesters in Tahrir Square in early February, an indicent later dubbed "The Battle of the Camel".
Twenty-five members of the dissolved (...)
The prosecutor in charge of investigations into Ministry of Agriculture corruption cases on Tuesday ordered the detention of former Minister of Agriculture Youssef Wali for 15 days pending the results of an investigation. Wali was arrested on (...)
A team of German doctors is expected to arrive to the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh to check on the health of former President Hosni Mubarak, following reports that he might have cancer, medical and judicial sources announced.
The team (...)
The Public Funds Prosecution is investigating accusations made by Nour Abdel Samad, director of Egypt's archaeological sites, that former First Lady Suzanne Mubarak and Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass misappropriated public funds using national (...)
Officials from the US and Israeli Embassies attended the official interviews with suspected Israeli spy Ilian Grapel on Tuesday, and were allowed to talk alone with him.
Grapel told investigators that he served in the Israeli army for two years and (...)
Investigation with Ilan Grapel, an Israeli accused of espionage, purportedly revealed that he had entered the country on 28 January, the Day of Anger, with a US passport and a tourist visa, and that Mossad had tasked him with collecting information (...)
The Cairo Criminal Court is due to issue verdicts on 5 July in a corruption case involving three senior figures from the former regime.
Verdicts will be handed down on former Trade and Industry Minister Rachid Mohamed Rachid, who has fled the (...)