The details of court sentence in the case of Ibn Khaldoun Center
Egypt, Politics, 6/19/2001

Cairo Supreme State Security court announced the details of its sentence in the case of Ibn Khaldoun Center that include 22 accused, at the head of them is Dr. Saadel Din ibrahim, Director of the center who was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment.

One of the accused was sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment with hard labor and another one for two years, besides two-year imprisonment with labor for four of the accused and the rest were sentenced to one year stay-of-execution imprisonment.

The Neyaba stressed that Dr. Saadel Din Ibrahim received money from the European Union (EU) in violation of the Military Order banning fundraising or receiving donations and any other means of getting money for any purpose without a permit from the Ministry of Social Affairs. it also affirmed that he received 136 thousand Euros in two installments for Ibn Khaldoun Center on condition that he arranges voters awareness campaigns through the Center.

The Neyaba said that Dr. Saadel Din Ibrahim has propagated false and malicious rumors abroad about thje internal affairs of Egypt with the aim of weakening the authority and dignity of the state. In this context, he shot a film illustrating the electoral practice in Egypt is carried out by means of rigging and violation of political rights of the citezins.

It added that Ibn Khaldoun center sent a message to the Bonn-based Protestant Association asking its support in a project on the sensitivity of the minority towards the Egyptian education system. He attached a report carries the same title stating the remarkable increase of unprecedented discrimination against the Christian Copts, the very much rough treatment they receive and the troubles they face from the Islamists and morale threat by the moderates.

The court mentioned that Dr. Saad Edin Ibrahim stated in his reports that Christians do not feel secure in Egypt. The court also mentioned that it was proved that the seized reports, which Ibrahim confessed to have written and sent abroad, include sheer lies and misleading news.

The court asserted also that Ibrahim and other accomplices committed crimes of fraud and embezzlement to the European Union and other organizations to which they sent reports as they sought to receive funds from them. They did so through sending them the outlines of two projects to be implemented by them. The first project deals with political education and voting rights. The second is about the Association of Female Voters Support. They requested funds from these organizations to carry out these projects.

The court also announced that Dr. Ibrahim has forged pay-sheets of employees in the center and that he used to cash checks with their names and signatures to himself and put the money in his own bank account. He also deceived the European Union by claiming that he encouraged Egyptians to issue 60,000 voting cards which proved later to be fake cards. He also claimed that he paid five Egyptian Pounds for every voting card issued by his employees but it was proved later on that he gave them one pound for each card and keep the rest for himself.

Ibrahim also forged invoices of publications, posters and booklets which exceeded their real value tenfold. Meanwhile, Ibrahim fabricated a budget to persuade the European Union that he spent the grant in its assigned items.

The court mentioned also that Ibrahim's secretary Nadia Abd El-Nour has helped him with preparing the budget. In the meantime, Khaled Fayad, one of the employees of the center, has brought the representatives required to issue forged voting cards. The fourth accused Usama Hashim Hamad has helped with issuing the forged checks through using his handwriting.

The court has proved also that some of the accomplices have given bribes to some civil servant in the Egyptian Radio and Television Union so as that they may shed light on the activities of the center in their TV and radio programs.

The court has proved as well that some of the accomplices have forged voting cards supposed to be issued from police stations.

The court also proved that some of the accomplices have taken part in Ibrahim's crimes of fraud and embezzlement.

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