The death sentence was imposed on charges of forming an organized criminal group that specialized in the importation of materials used for trafficking in the manufacture of narcotic drugs and the acquisition and storage of firearms and ammunition without a license.
The Cairo Criminal Court referred feature producer Sarah Khalifa and 12 other defendants to His Holiness the Mufti for a legal opinion on their death penalty.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office charged Sarah Khalifa and the defendants in the case with manufacturing and trafficking narcotics, which carries a life sentence under Egyptian law.
Sara Khalifa also faces a new sentence on drug charges, which carry up to three years in prison under Egyptian law.
The Prosecutor’s Office ordered the seizure of the defendants’ cash and bank balances, and the Prosecutor’s Office referred the defendants to a competent criminal court.
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.
