Tuesday 17/February/2026 – 01:04 PM
Attorney Moselhi Mohamed Moselhi submitted a report to the Public Prosecutor against the president Egyptian Medicine Authority The former in his capacity at the time of issuing Resolution No. 600 of 2023, and the Minister of Health and Population in his capacity during the same period after the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled that the decision of the Chairman of the Drug Authority to replace the schedules of the Drug Control Law was unconstitutional.
Moselhi stated in his report that Decision No. 600 of 2023 had been issued by the head of the Egyptian Drug Authority, including the transfer of methamphetamine essence from Section Two to Section One (B) of Schedule No. 1 attached to Law No. 182 of 1960 regarding drug control, which resulted in tightening the penalties prescribed for acts related to it.
After the constitutional ruling.. a communication to the Attorney General demanding the opening of an urgent investigation against the Minister of Health and the head of the Medicines Authority due to drug schedules
He continued that the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled that the aforementioned decision was unconstitutional, based on the head of the Egyptian Medicines Authority exceeding the limits of his powers and violating the legislative mandate assigned to the Minister of Health and Population alone under Article 32 of Law No. 182 of 1960, and exceeding the limits of the legally authorized jurisdiction.
The lawyer confirmed that what is established from the operative words and reasons for the constitutional ruling is that the issuer of the decision exercised a legislative jurisdiction that was not legally delegated to him, which constitutes a clear violation of the provisions of the Constitution and the principle of legality and the rule of law, and represents a usurpation of a jurisdiction legally reserved for another authority, which resulted in tightening penalties in thousands of criminal cases, applying an unconstitutional text to defendants, some of whom were sentenced to deprivation of liberty, compromising the guarantees of a fair trial, and disrupting the legal positions of the litigants, which is What constitutes, according to what appears from the papers, a serious error that resulted in severe damage to the criminal justice facility and harmed a significant number of citizens.
Moselhi continued in his report that the Minister of Health and Population, as the person with the inherent legal jurisdiction, had failed to exercise his jurisdiction or to address the transgression that occurred, which raises suspicion of legal responsibility for allowing the exercise of legislative jurisdiction by someone without status. Whereas this was the case, and the incident, according to its appearance, may involve suspicion of legally punishable crimes, including usurping a public position, issuing a decision in violation of the law, and harming the interests of individuals and their legal positions, which requires an independent judicial investigation to determine the truth about the criminal and administrative responsibility of everyone who issued the decision or allowed it to be issued in violation of the correct law.
He called for the opening of an urgent judicial investigation into the incident of the issuance of Decision No. 600 of 2023 by the Chairman of the Egyptian Drug Authority in violation of the provisions of the law, and for holding accountable everyone who was proven to have participated, contributed, or failed to issue or permit the decision, and to take whatever legal measures you deem necessary regarding the violations revealed by the ruling of the Supreme Constitutional Court.
