Al-Sisi between “September”: revenge by cloning the “Ritz campaign”

Cairo | September 2020 will mark a milestone in the history of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, a year after the “General’s” government passed its weakest moment, when the contractor, Mohamed Ali, who fled to Europe, revealed the extreme extravagance in the construction of palaces and presidential rest houses, and in an exciting way. So a sensation. On this occasion, Sisi made decisions that will affect his followers before his opponents, and will close the door to political life for all, not only before the next parliamentary elections next spring, but perhaps until the presidential elections scheduled for the last quarter of this year.

The main “apparent” objective is “to confront the influence of businessmen and obtain from them the highest material yield to compensate for the current scarcity of state resources as a consequence of the Crown crisis,” according to sources close to the palace. It is true that obtaining money from citizens through fees and the application of fines for violating construction and severe threats and promises has finally begun to remove real estate whose owners do not reconcile with the government to reconcile their conditions in accordance with the law, but targeting entrepreneurs opens up to a completely different stage, as the president seeks to collect billions of pounds. Those, whether supporters or opponents, through methods such as holding them accountable for the price of the land at today’s price, reviewing the contracts that were entered into between them and previous governments, and how they obtained the land, all of which are matters that they will force billionaires to reconcile and pay money to the state.
What Al-Sisi is doing is tainted by clear constitutional and legal violations, but he continues to implement his own wishes without considering any other considerations, a position that is reflected in his behavior in the removal of the head of the Administrative Control Authority, Sharif Saif. al-Din Hussein, with the end of his mandate to conduct business and the appointment of Hassan Abd Al Shafi in place of the Chargé d’affaires of the year. The main dispute between Sisi and Hussein is related to the point of view of the former, who complains about the slowdown in the taking of measures against entrepreneurs who have obtained billions of pounds in housing projects, which has caused a direct confrontation between both, especially since most of the businessmen Sisi wishes to persecute have reconciled with the state in some cases. In earlier times, and according to legal considerations, he also wants to erase it.
In fact, the campaign began with the arrest of businessman Salah Diab, owner of the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, as a result of financial irregularities, despite their reconciliation in one of the previous cases. This time, Diab, who is known for his anti-regime stances, must pay back tens of millions for other incidents, otherwise he will remain in prison for life with his property confiscated. Yesterday, the Prosecutor’s Office decided to file charges against him that included evading the payment of 11 billion pounds to the State treasury, which are amounts accumulated as a result of the new method in which Al-Sisi asked the businessmen to render accounts, that is, , calculate inflation rates, the amount of principal, interest and other charges, so as to guarantee the collection of the largest possible sums in the shortest possible time. Duration.
Sources reveal that among the businessmen expected to be persecuted are also the famous billionaire Naguib Sawiris, the good salary of the owner of many projects in Sinai and supporter of Sisi, and other personalities accused of profiting from state funds and evading taxes and the value added tax on their projects. Also, the money that will enter the state treasury will include the money of personalities of the symbols of the regime of the late president, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, among them Lieutenant General Ahmed Shafiq, who will be tried again in the cases of “airport corruption” this month. after five years in which the case was kept in the drawers, while many link between them. Shafiq and Diab met a few days ago and their anger at Sisi, and between their early persecution. Funds will also be requested from many personalities under the rubric of reconciliation with the state, in accordance with the new laws approved by Parliament and that came into force, amid direct presidential instructions to review the accounts of entrepreneurs in banks and the movement of its funds abroad to determine the amounts that can be obtained from them during the next period.

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