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Source: Cairo – Ashraf Abdel Hamid
“They worked with all kinds of prohibited commerce that publicly claimed their religious illegality, such as antiquities and drug trafficking, and recruited their followers to achieve their worldly, political and financial purposes.” This is how advisor Imad Abu Hashem, a former Egyptian judge, described the Brotherhood who defected and returned from Turkey to Egypt. Recently.
In an interview with Al-Arabiya.net, he said: “The Brotherhood, to justify their illegal actions and behavior, applies the rule“ Everything that is done without a duty is an obligation ”
To clarify further, he said: “If the group sees that their way of governing requires murder and violence, then this is a duty. The war is a ruse to legitimize what you are doing in your conflict with the Egyptian state.
In addition, he revealed that the Brotherhood took advantage of this rule to justify prohibited actions, including the trading of antiquities that they smuggled abroad to sell for big money. He noted that the group exploited a judge, who was among the members of the so-called Independence Movement, to smuggle and transport antiquities from the Sinai inside his car, since the law prohibits registering the judges’ cars because they enjoy judicial immunity.
He also mentioned that the Brotherhood, Bahjat Saber, who is currently fleeing abroad, had previously revealed in a voice leak that one of the Brotherhood’s judges, currently residing in Turkey, requested his help in reaching out to some antique dealers with in order to sell some of his antique holdings, a large part of which was transferred to the group’s account and confiscated. He had various possessions of them away from the group, adding that this judge was behind the installation of wiretapping cameras in the office of the former Attorney General of the Brotherhood Talaat Abdullah and was inciting him, ordering him to open the files of some Coptic businessmen to blackmail them. and get money from them for the benefit of the group, fabricating cases against Brotherhood opponents and issuing Adjust orders and get them out.
Through the tunnels of Gaza
In addition, Abu Hashim explained that the group used to smuggle antiquities through the tunnels of Gaza and through elements affiliated with them abroad who sold them at high prices that entered the financial accounts of the group and its leaders, and also passed from smuggling some antiquities and weapons along the roads of Sudan and through elements affiliated with them in those Areas, as well as the rugged mountain roads on the Libyan-Egyptian border, which was understood by the Egyptian security services and managed to thwart many of them .
Regarding the theft and smuggling of antiquities, as the Egyptian judge says: “They were carried out through companies that work in quarries, that exploit the excavation and excavation through their licensed work to look for antiquities, and after finding Antique statues or collectibles, are transferred through the items I mentioned above, which the law prohibits inspecting for their immunity. The judicial process was directed at large merchants, who work for the directions of the Great Brotherhood residing abroad, “indicating that transport and smuggling operations were carried out more through the tunnels with Gaza, followed less by the roads of mountain on the borders with Sudan and Libya.
In addition, he said that “the great leaders of the Arab Brotherhood were owners of international companies that were in charge of selling antiquities on behalf of the group in exchange for an agreed financial percentage,” indicating that this trade generated no less than 20% of the income of the group.
Also drugstores
The former Egyptian judge added that the group owns drugstores in Egypt in which it stores narcotic substances for sale inside and outside the country, and among these drugs is the drug “tramadol” that the Brotherhood used to sell through its sympathizers for various reasons. The first is to provide material liquidity through which they can spend on their activities, and the second is to provide job opportunities for their supporters allowing them to earn and obtain money, and the third and last is to control young people through these drugs and recruiting them for the group and working for it, adding that the group used to distribute drugs to its supporters during the demonstrations and pay them while they were under the influence of their abuse of violence, chaos and sabotage, which was later proven. These young people after being arrested, as well as the operatives who would carry out terrorist operations, pushed to consume these drugs before the operation under the pretext of obtaining the required force and focus, but the other and real objective, according to the judge deserted, it is clearing the mind so that they do not realize the gravity and gravity of the crimes they commit.
drug smuggling
Abu Hashem also confirmed that the group has gang formations within Egypt that work in smuggling and selling drugs and currency trading and creating small workshops to manufacture light weapons that can be used in violence, demonstrations and movement. popular that they are trying to revive, adding that before legalizing forex trading in Egypt, the group was and continues to work. In foreign exchange and selling it at a higher price than in banks for huge profits.
He added: “They were using groups of their supporters to sell drugs and sexual stimulants, collect coins from those who came from abroad, and sell gas and food bottles, in order to raise the material level of their supporters and achieve a comparative advantage for them. that allows them to control and the ability to recruit others. “
Furthermore, he concluded his speech, noting that “what the Egyptian authorities seized in terms of money and property from the Brotherhood is not approximately 10% of the size of their royal property. There is other illegal money and property and trade that the group practices in the areas in which it has influence, or in the areas in which it has less. Security control and difficult to monitor on land, sea and air, “adding that” the group is a global mafia that practices all kinds of taboos in the name of religion, hoping to gain power and hoping to achieve what it is called the world chair ”.
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