The investigations of the Egyptian Prosecution in the case of the murder of the Egyptian reporter Shaima Gamal at the hands of her husband, Counselor Ayman Hajjaj, revealed confessions proving the corruption of the murderer judge and his taking bribes in exchange for issuing court rulings in favor of some investors and landowners in conflict with the state and private videos of the marital relationship that his wife, the broadcaster, threatened to force him to announce their marriage .
The investigations conducted with the murderer judge also revealed accusations against Judge Ayman Hajjaj and his partner of corruption and exploitation of the judicial function with the help of the announcer. According to what was published by the Egyptian newspaper “Al-Shorouk”.
Multiple novels
While there were many accounts of the causes of the anchor’s killing, they began with the judge being constantly threatened by announcing the secret marriage and video clips of the marital relationship in order to bargain with him, and ended with accusations of corruption to the judge by using his job to solicit bribes from the litigants in an indirect way, and the dead woman keeping papers that threaten the judge’s reputation.
While the statements of Hussein Al-Garabli, the second accused, revealed an aspect of this, as he admitted that Judge Ayman Hajjaj was afraid of his wife, the broadcaster, because she was mediating between him and the litigants who were interested in the lawsuits before him, and she obtained money from them for that, and threatened him to divulge this matter on the one hand. Currency.
Plans to kill her
He added in the text of the investigations that the judge, with the threat of his wife, the announcer, brewed in his mind the idea of killing her, and he persuaded him to participate in the killing in exchange for a sum of money, noting that the judge also promised him to mediate in the cases before him concerning Arab investors, in exchange for receiving sums of money.
Judicial corruption
The second defendant added that the murderer judge gave him a copy of a lawsuit newspaper pending before him for an investor regarding a plot of land located in the city of Qusair in Marsa Alam in the Red Sea, issued to a tourism company and asked him to go to the owner of the company, asking him for an amount of 20 million pounds in exchange for obtaining a ruling in his favor in the lawsuit as Delegated by one of the law firms, after he disclosed to him some decisions that will be issued in the case in the future, which is the retrial without the assignment of an expert and the detention for judgment at the hearing on September 5 or 6, 2022.
He also admitted that, in implementation of that agreement, he went to meet the owner of the company already, and asked him for the agreed amount, and told him that he would consult his partners before answering his request, noting that the judge promised him a large commission of up to 5 million pounds from the deal.
She threatened her husband to expose him
The statements of the accused Al-Gharabli revealed that the announcer threatened her husband, the judge, to divulge secrets of his corruption and obtaining bribes in favor of his employer, and asked him for 3 million pounds in exchange for silence on this.
He added that the judge asked him to go to one of the investors who owned land in the city of Hurghada on the Red Sea coast, worth 900 million pounds, and the state withdrew it from him for not committing to implementing the agreed project, which prompted him to file a lawsuit against the state, noting that the judge asked him to go. For this investor, he requested an amount of 40 million pounds in return for ending the lawsuit in his favour.
In the context of loud surprises, the second defendant indicated that the accused judge also promised him to give him the equivalent of 3 million pounds in exchange for ending this deal, pointing out that the announcer was aware of these details and was always threatening the judge and bargaining with him and asking him for money in exchange for silence on his corruption.
In this regard, the Public Prosecution formed a committee to examine the balances and accounts of the accused in the banks, the financial movements that took place in them, the names of those dealing with them, the amount of transfers and deposits made in or out of them and their dates, and the values of the checks related to them, the dates of their disbursement, the drawer and the beneficiary of all banks operating in Egypt.
Postponing the first session
Last Wednesday, the Giza Criminal Court decided to postpone the first hearings of Judge Ayman Hajjaj and Hussein Al-Gharabli’s trial, accusing them of killing broadcaster Shaima Gamal, until the next August 13 session for information.
The first accused confessed to killing his wife, while the second accused denied participating in the killing.
During the session, the representative of the Public Prosecution confirmed that the accused had committed the crime of killing the victim, and mutilating her face in order to hide the features of the body.