Saturday 13/December/2025 – 03:12 AM
The Third Circuit Terrorism, in its session held in Badr, today, Saturday, is considering the trial of 7 defendants, who are not charged in Case No. 12851 of 2024, First Settlement felonies, in the case known in the media as the currency smuggling cell.
Trial of 7 accused in the “currency smuggling” cell
The referral order prepared by the Public Prosecution in the currency smuggling cell case stated that during the period from January 2022 to October 20, 2022, the first to the third defendants joined a terrorist group that was established in contravention of the provisions of the law, preventing state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their work, attacking the personal freedom of citizens, rights and freedoms, and harming national unity and social peace, by assuming leadership of the Brotherhood group that aims to change the regime by force, and he assumed the implementation of Hostile operations.
All defendants were charged with financing terrorism, with the first defendant collecting and providing foreign exchange funds and transferring them to the third through seventh defendants. The second defendant received them and provided them to members of the group, knowing that they would be used to commit a terrorist act.
The fourth accused, in his capacity as a chief flight attendant, was charged with taking money as a bribe to disrupt his job duties and smuggle foreign currency out of the country in contravention of the provisions of the law.
