Artist producer Sarah Khalifa has just arrived at the Cairo Criminal Court, held today in the Fifth Settlement, before she and 27 other defendants were sentenced on charges of forming an organized criminal group specializing in the production of narcotics, with the intention of trafficking and obtaining and keeping firearms without a license.
The Cairo Criminal Court, held in the Fifth Settlement, referred feature producer Sara Khalifa and 12 other defendants to His Holiness the Mufti to obtain a legal opinion on their death sentences.
Sarah Khalifa and new allegations
Sara Khalifa and her co-defendants in the case face sentences for manufacturing and trafficking narcotics, which carries a life sentence under Egyptian law.
Sara Khalifa is facing a new sentence for drug trafficking, which is punishable by up to 3 years in prison under Egyptian law.
Notably, the Public Prosecutor’s Office referred Sarah Khalifa and 27 others to the New Cairo Criminal Court to face charges of importing, manufacturing and trafficking narcotics, in addition to what the investigation revealed were documented incidents of assault.
Seizing Sara Khalifa’s money
Competent investigative bodies ordered the seizure of the defendants’ funds and bank balances, and the prosecutor’s office ordered the transfer of the defendants to a competent criminal court.
The Prosecutor’s Office accuses Sara Khalifa
The Prosecutor’s Office ordered twenty-eight defendants – including the accused Sarah Khalifa Hamadeh – to be sent to the Criminal Court to charge them with forming an organized criminal group that specialized in the production of narcotics, the manufacture of firearms and the acquisition of licenses.
The investigation established that the defendants, under the leadership of several of them, created a criminal organization aimed at the production of synthetic narcotic substances for the purpose of trafficking, by importing the materials used in the production from outside the country. The roles were gradually distributed among them. Some of them were responsible for importing raw materials, others for their production, and the rest for their promotion. The defendants took one of the residential premises as a headquarters for the storage and production of these materials. The total amount of synthetic narcotic substances contained in the drug and the raw materials were removed. Produced, more than 750 kilograms.
Based on the results of the investigation, the Prosecutor’s Office issued several emergency decisions, including inventorying the defendants’ property, declassifying their bank accounts, confiscating money, including placing the fugitive defendants on travel bans and entry watch lists, and continuing the detention of the remaining defendants.
The transfer decision was based on the testimony of twenty witnesses and technical and digital evidence presented through conversations, photographs and video clips of the defendant’s criminal activities.
