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| Egyptian authorities freeze assets of 18 firms 'affiliated with Muslim Brotherhood': Sources |
| 2017-08-22 |
| [AlAhram] Egyptian authorities have this week frozen the assets of 18 companies they believe to be affiliated with the banned Moslem Brüderbund, sources told Ahram Online. The list of companies has not yet been announced, but the companies included are reportedly Radio Shack, Mobile Shop, Computer Shop, Delta RS Trading, CompuMe Egypt Information Technology, Delta Telecom, and Misr al-Arabia news website. The sources said that the decision was issued by an Egyptian governmental committee tasked with appraising and seizing the funds of members of the banned Moslem Brüderbund group last January and was implemented by judicial order on Sunday. The Central Bank and the General Investment Authority were informed of the judicial order to confiscate all liquid, movable and real estate assets owned by the entities and companies, according to a source. The committee said last week that it had confiscated the assets of 16 Brotherhood members. Among those whose assets were confiscated is Cairo Portal Company for Publishing and Distribution, as well as Alef bookstores, which has 37 branches across the country. The committee also announced that it confiscated the assets of the children of Brotherhood spiritual leader Sheikh Youssef El-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Lifeon Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization.Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... , who currently resides in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... In May 2017, the committee confiscated the funds 11 members of the family of leading Brotherhood figure and businessman Hassan Malek, including the funds of his five children. Last December, the government committee announced that it had frozen the assets of a number of businessmen including Mostafa Sakr, the publisher of the English-language newspaper Daily News Egypt and the Arabic-language Borsa News. In November 2016, the committee said it had seized the assets of more than 1,370 people and 1,125 companies and NGOs since March 2014, with a total of at least $34 million in seized Brotherhood assets. The Moslem Brüderbund was designated a terrorist organization by the Egyptian government in November 2013. The asset committee was established in 2014 and is headed by Mohammed Yasser Abo El-Fotoh. |
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