Security and Crime

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  • Security source refutes rumors about increasing national ID fees

    Date: 2024-03-24 19:17:05 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:61 - ID:10637014

    CAIRO, March 24 (MENA) - A security source denied Sunday social media reports about an increase in national ID application fees. The fees required for obtaining a national ID card through the regular due process remain unchanged at EGP 50, the ....

  • No casualties reported in fire erupted at Nasr City building - security source

    Date: 2024-03-23 22:01:23 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:64 - ID:10635900

    CAIRO, March 23 (MENA) – A high-level security source asserted on Saturday that no casualties were reported in the fire that erupted at a parking lot of a building in Nasr City district in Cairo governorate. In exclusive statements to MENA, the ....

  • 3 busted over money laundering, illegal foreign exchange trading

    Date: 2024-03-19 17:23:01 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:69 - ID:10630580

    CAIRO, March 19 (MENA) - The Ministry of Interior has taken legal action against three persons over illegal foreign exchange trading outside the State's licensed banking market and making revenues from such an illegal activity. They are facing ....

  • Gang arrested in Cairo for illicit trade in foreign currency

    Date: 2024-03-18 12:44:31 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:27 - ID:10628667

    CAIRO, March 18 (MENA) - Security bodies in Cairo arrested a gang for involvement in illicit trade in foreign currency. The gang members were nabbed with various foreign currencies worth nearly EGP 80 million in their possession. (MENA) M R ....

  • Hurghada airport customs officers abort attempts to smuggle quantities of e-shisha

    Date: 2024-03-16 18:13:02 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:52 - ID:10626441

    HURGHDAD, March 16 (MENA) - Customs officers of the Hurghada airport have managed to foil four attempts to smuggle quantities of electronic Shisha (hookahs) and materials used in smoking. The abortion of the attempts came during the inspection of ....

  • 7 killed, injured in car accident in Aswan

    Date: 2024-03-14 21:22:55 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:69 - ID:10624482

    ASWAN, Egypt, March 14 (MENA) – A man, 53, was killed while six others were injured on Thursday in a microbus accident at the agricultural road in Aswan governorate. The injured were moved to Daraw Central Hospital for medical treatment. A probe ....

  • Security campaign to arrest narcotics, unlicensed arms dealers

    Date: 2024-03-12 12:04:37 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:24 - ID:10620958

    CAIRO, March 12 (MENA) - Security agencies in the governorates of Assiut, Aswan, Sohag, Damietta and Alexandria started a campaign to apprehend dealers of illegal drugs and unlicensed arms. During the campaigns, amounts of different kinds of ....

  • 3 criminal elements arrested with illegal drugs in their possession

    Date: 2024-03-10 10:17:03 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:20 - ID:10618333

    CAIRO, March 10 (MENA) - Security bodies at the Interior Ministry arrested three criminal elements for possessing amounts of illegal drugs before being distributed in three governorates. The public security sector managed to arrest an unemployed ....

  • Security source to MENA: Intensified security services in Ramadan

    Date: 2024-03-10 09:42:39 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:18 - ID:10618264

    CAIRO, March 10 (MENA) - A senior security source at the Interior Ministry said a wide-range security plan was put into effect to streamline traffic during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, especially in Iftar timing. In statements to MENA on ....

  • 1,100 cases of illegal hard currency trades confronted by security in 40 days

    Date: 2024-03-10 08:54:20 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:11 - ID:10618054

    CAIRO, March 10 (MENA) - A senior security source at the Interior Ministry said security bodies managed over the past 40 days to uncover 1,100 cases of hard currency trade outside the banking market at a total value EGP 713 million. In statements ....

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