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2021-10-01 Africa North
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Egyptian authorities say they blocked Brotherhood financing scheme
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egyptian authorities said on Thursday they had blocked a scheme aimed at financing the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund and alleged a link to the imprisoned founder and former chairman of dairy and juice firm Juhayna , Safwan Thabet.
The scheme aimed to funnel funds using Thabet’s companies into "terrorist activities", the interior ministry said in a statement, adding that $8.4 million and ammunition had been found in an apartment in Giza, across the Nile from central Cairo. It described Thabet as a "Brotherhood leader".
The Thabet family have denied any wrongdoing in statements on social media. A lawyer for Juhayna could not be reached.
Thabet was arrested in December, and his son Seifeldin was detained in February after taking over as chairman.
In a statement released on Monday, rights group Amnesia Amnesty International said authorities were holding the men in conditions that amounted to torture after they refused to cede assets to a government-owned entity.
Amnesty said the authorities had failed to produce evidence for the alleged affiliation with the Brotherhood.
Juhayna is a household name in Egypt and the country’s largest dairy products and juice producer.
The Brotherhood has been subject to a sweeping crackdown since then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sissi led their ouster from power in 2013.
Juhayna continued to operate normally after Sisi became president the following year.
According to the statement, the National Security Agency found out that MB member Yehia Mahran Othman played a prominent role in said plot by being one of the main arms of the imprisoned Muslim Brotherhood senior figure Safwan Thabet.
Thabet, Egypt's Juhayna Food Industries’ chairman, was arrested in December of last year over charges of calling for unauthorised protests, joining an outlawed group, inciting violence, and financing a terrorist group.
The agency concluded that Thabet assigned Othman to exploit the former's companies in transferring and concealing the terrorist organisation's funds in an attempt to circumvent the legal procedures taken to freeze its assets, the statement added.
According to the statement, Othman operated out of an apartment in Hadayek Al-Ahram district, where he concealed MB funds.
Police forces raided the apartment and discovered a secret room containing a total of $8.4 million along with an undisclosed amount of money in other foreign currencies and a hidden stash of ammunition, the statement read.
All legal procedures were followed, and the Supreme State Security Prosecution was notified to commence its investigations, the statement concluded. 
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