Along with Al-Swireki, the former Minister of Manpower, Khaled Al-Azhari, included the issue of terrorism financing

Informed sources revealed that the Supreme State Security Prosecutor’s Office decided to detain the former Minister of Manpower Khaled Al-Azhari for 15 days as a precautionary measure pending investigations. Accusing him of joining and funding a banned terrorist group.

The sources explained to Al-Shorouk that the former minister during Hisham Qandil’s government was charged in the same case in which Sayed Al-Swireki, owner of the Al-Tawhid and Al-Noor chain of stores, which carries the number 865 of the High State Security Survey of the year 2020.

The sources claimed that the case has several other defendants.

The sources indicated that the prosecution confronted the defendants in the investigation session last Wednesday with what is attributed to them in the investigation report, according to which they belong to a terrorist group and terrorist financing, and at the end of the session, issued its advance decision to detain them for a period of 15 days with the completion of the investigations.

It is noteworthy that Al-Azhari was accused in the events of the fire of the Giza governorate building, the events of which date back to the aftermath of the dispersal of the Rab’a and Al-Nahda sit-ins, until he was released in October 2016. For exceeding the legally prescribed period of preventive detention, which is set at a maximum of two years, he was arrested again this week, based on the decision of the Public Ministry to detain him and take him to the investigation of the new case that is investigated.