DAMAGES CLAIM IN EGYPT
Proceeds Of Alleged Corruption (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)
CAIRO, August 5. The Egyptian Government is claiming £221,000 in damages from Fuad Serag el Din, a millionaire and a former Wafdist Minister of the Interior and Finance Minister, and seven other persons accused of “rigging” the Alexandria cotton market.
The gather seven accused include Mrs Zeinab el Wakil, wife of the former Prime Minister and Wafdist leader, Mustafa el Nahas, and two leading cotton exporters. The Wafd Party was in power until the King dismissed the Cabinet headed by Mustafa ei Nahas in January, 1952, after mobs burned and pillaged parts of Cairo. The Government’s demand for damages is the result of a report by its purge commission. A case against leading personalities in the old regime opened in July before a Cairo “graft court.” The charges include corruption, misappropriation of funds, and influencing the former Government.
General Naguib’s new Government set up this court.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27112, 7 August 1953, Page 6
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