Security and Crime

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  • Infiltration bid by 184 persons to Libya foiled

    Date: 2018-02-08 13:39:21 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:55 - ID:7234844

    MARSA MATROUH, Egypt, Feb 8 (MENA) - Security bodies in Marsa Matrouh thwarted over the past three days an infiltration attempt by 184 persons to Libya via desert roads in Salloum. The infiltrators were arrested from a military zone where ....

  • 165 weapons seized during security campaigns in Qena, Assiut, Minya

    Date: 2018-02-04 13:23:34 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:60 - ID:7226890

    CAIRO, Feb 4 (MENA) - Security bodies at the Interior Ministry launched a number of campaigns to arrest criminal elements who possess unlicensed weapons and ammunition. They seized 165 weapons and 440 bullets in Qena, Assiut and Minya ....

  • 2 persons nabbed before selling subsidized flour on black market

    Date: 2018-02-04 13:06:50 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:54 - ID:7226889

    ALEXANDRIA, Feb 4 (MENA) - Supply police at Alexandria security directorate managed to arrest two persons before selling 344.550 tons of subsidized flour on the black market. The perpetrators are in charge of two bakeries and were found to ....

  • 50kg of bango, hashish seized in 24 hours

    Date: 2018-02-04 12:02:08 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:40 - ID:7226887

    CAIRO, Feb 4 (MENA) - Police seized 50 kilograms of bango and hashish during security campaigns launched over the past 24 hours. Fifty-one fugitive defendants were arrested during the crackdowns launched upon the directives of Interior Minister ....

  • 6 MB members held over charges of planning to disrupt presidential polls

    Date: 2018-02-04 11:06:29 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:35 - ID:7226635

    CAIRO, Feb 4 (MENA) - Six senior members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood will be held in custody for 15 days pending investigations into charges of plotting to disrupt the upcoming presidential elections. The six face several accusations ....

  • Embassy: Murderers of Egyptian citizen in US arrested

    Date: 2018-02-04 10:07:48 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:27 - ID:7226486

    WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (MENA) - The US authorities have arrested the men who shot dead Andrew Qolta, an Egyptian citizen, the Egyptian Embassy here announced Sunday. Qolta was shot dead by three unidentified men at night on January 28, a statement by ....

  • News about 300 MB members working at Interior Ministry baseless -- media center

    Date: 2018-02-03 11:18:03 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:23 - ID:7225081

    CAIRO, Feb 3 (MENA) - The Interior Ministry has denied news that 300 of its civil employees belong to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group. Ad Dostour newspaper quoted a security source as having said that the Interior Ministry is also ....

  • 6 MB terrorists arrested for plotting riots during presidential polls

    Date: 2018-02-03 10:35:09 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:19 - ID:7224910

    CAIRO, Feb 3 (MENA) - Five terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders and an official of a revolutionary movement affiliated with the group have been arrested for plotting to incite riots during the upcoming presidential election. The National ....

  • ACA arrests three officials on corruption charges 2 last Cairo

    Date: 2018-01-30 19:19:34 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:75 - ID:7219012

    The second official is an engineer at the general authority for reconstruction projects and agricultural development in Beheira governorate after he demanded and took a bribe of EGP 230,000 in exchange for legalizing the status of a person who ....

  • ACA arrests three officials on corruption charges

    Date: 2018-01-30 17:38:59 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:70 - ID:7219010

    CAIRO, Jan 30 (MENA) - The Administrative Control Authority (ACA) has arrested three officials on corruption charges. The prosecution remanded the three in custody pending investigations. The first one, the head of the purchasing and ....

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