CAIRO: The Supreme State Security Prosecution, headed by Hisham Badawy, today decided to extend the sentence of former Secretariat of the former National Democratic Party Ahmed Ezz for a period of 15 days. Ezz was jailed on the charges of money laundering. He is accused of laundering money after taking over the Dekheila Company and earning profits of 687,435,017 EGP (U.S. $115.17 million). The investigation, which is headed by attorneys Mohamed Hamouda, Medhat Ramadan and Amal Othman, revealed that Ezz pilfered public funds. It was also revealed that Ezz unlawfully colluded with other members of the Dekheila Company to achieve profits of nearly five billion EGP from 2001 to 2011. At the time, Ezz was chairman of the Dekheila Company and owner of other private companies.