The head of the Illicit Gains Authority on Sunday called on the media to be accurate about the presumed wealth of former President Hosni Mubarak and other officials from his regime.
“The media claims they have billions abroad whereas this is not (...)
A committee of 11 parliamentarians visited the Tora prison hospital on Wednesday to see what preparations are being made to receive ousted President Hosni Mubarak, sources at the prisons department of the Interior Ministry told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
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Egypt's Interior Ministry announced on Monday it had arrested two people for alleged involvement in stealing equipment from Dabaa, the site of the country's planned nuclear power station, northwest of Cairo.
Security sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm (...)
The Interior Ministry's Prisons Department released blogger Maikel Nabil from Tora prison on Tuesday. Nabil has been in detention since March 2011 and was sentenced to two years by a military tribunal.
Head of the ruling military council, Field (...)
The Spanish National Court (SNC), or Audiencia Nacional, located in Madrid held its first hearing Thursday to consider Egypt's demand to extradite Khaled Salem, son of Hussein Salem, who faces charges of money laundering.
A Spanish legal source told (...)
Assem al-Gohary, head of the Illicit Gains Authority (IGA), has received an official letter from the Swiss prosecution saying it is undertaking an extensive investigation into allegations about former President Hosni Mubarak, his wife Suzanne, and (...)
Egypt's military leader Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi has ordered the formation of a committee of high-ranking army generals tasked with ensuring the Egyptian armed forces are given positive media coverage.
The new body — to be called “The National (...)
An officer who allegedly refused to shoot at protesters during downtown clashes in late November hadn't worked for Central Security Forces (CSF) since March, the Interior Ministry said Monday.
The ministry's statement came in response to a report by (...)
Interior Minister Mansour al-Essawy met with his aides on Tuesday to discuss a plan to secure the first phase of the upcoming parliamentary elections, in collaboration with the armed forces.
Essawy gave instructions not to interfere in the electoral (...)
Anonymous masked men blew up a portion of the natural gas pipeline running from Sinai to Israel and Jordan Thursday for the seventh time since the 25 January revolution. The saboteurs wrote a message in the sand near the pipeline that read: "We (...)
The committee that was formed to repatriate money siphoned abroad froze assets on Monday belonging to ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his family, said Assem al-Gohary, head of the Illicit Gains Authority (IGA).
On 29 September, the committee (...)
The Egyptian committee formed to repatriate assets frozen abroad has commissioned a Swiss law firm to follow-up on official Swiss investigations into three former figures of the Mubark regime.
Alaa Mubarak, son of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, (...)
The Swiss authorities have promised to expedite procedures for returning some SF770 million in frozen funds to Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, though they warned the transfer might take several years.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian committee responsible for (...)
The Egyptian state television has quoted Spanish Foreign Minister TrinidadGarcía-Herreraas saying on Monday that her country intends to return fugitive Egyptian business tycoon Hussein Salem, confident of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, for Egyptian (...)
The Interior Ministry has moved detainees and arms from police stations as a precautionary measure before Friday's million-strong demonstration that will be held under the slogan “Reclaiming the Revolution.”
The minister also ordered Police Academy (...)
Informed sources at the Interior Ministry say that Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, president of the military council, has met with Interior Minister Mansour Essawy and all his aides to discuss measures to secure upcoming parliamentary elections.
They (...)
Thirty-one detainees escaped from the New Cairo police station on Thursday. Security forces have arrested 24 of them and returned them to custody.
Upon opening the door to the custody area to inform some of the prisoners that they had visitors, (...)
Security forces are currently investigating the possible involvement of two well-known politicians in instigating the recent attack on the Israeli Embassy and the events that accompanied it, said a security source on Thursday.
The source pointed out (...)
The Interior Ministry denied on Monday that it intervenes in university affairs, despite Al-Masry Al-Youm's obtaining of a Cairo University security report that details the ministry's thoughts on candidates running in the upcoming university (...)
Anyone who attempts to break into the Interior Ministry will be shot, Interior Minister Mansour al-Essawy said in an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm.
He will not allow police stations to be broken into and gave instructions to the Giza Security (...)
Interior Minister Mansour al-Essawy has said that Sinai's Bedouins will be enrolled in various police academies for the first time.
During a meeting with Sinai's tribal chiefs on Thursday, Essawy said that more than 1000 Bedouin students would join (...)
The Ministry of Interior has issued a statement announcing that it will withdraw its troops from Tahrir Square at midnight on Thursday, and will return to the square at midnight on Friday.
The statement said the ministry is committed to citizens' (...)
The Illicit Gains Authority (IGA) has asked the competent supervisory bodies to expedite reports about the fortune of fugitive business tycoon Hussein Salem in order to start investigation into charges leveled against him.
Salem, who is currently (...)
Local security departments around Egypt have named parts of their offices after the officers killed in an Israeli border raid late Thursday, the Interior Ministry announced Tuesday.
"The decision was made out of appreciation for the security (...)
Further security reinforcements were dispatched to North Sinai on Saturday morning, said security sources on Saturday.
The sources said that the armed forces imposed tight security measures in the areas of Nakhl, Nuweiba, Arish, Rafah and Sheikh (...)