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In the session, which did not last more than half an hour, the couple only confirmed that they had obtained an entry permit without showing it or indicating its nature, and whether it was verbal by placing names at a military checkpoint, or in writing and granted according to a prior request submitted to the South Office of Army Intelligence. The absence of an answer confused all the security services. While sources following up on Al-Akhbar denied that the Southern Intelligence Bureau had granted written permission to “Sherine Abdel Wahhab or others,” indicating that he had no such notice, other sources hinted at the obligatory presence of a device that grants permission, to be found in After the Egyptian singer and her husband had already obtained a permit from one of the agencies, it was circulated to one of the crossing checkpoints, without knowing whether the permit was issued by the leadership of the agency or by an officer. Al-Akhbar learned that the permission was in the name of journalist Hussein Khreis, and the names of Abdel-Wahhab, Habib and Madi were added to it.
While the data went to conducting an internal investigation to determine those responsible for issuing the permission, the Military Public Prosecution contented itself with writing to the Intelligence Directorate and asking it to provide it with a document on the permission granted, and the investigation was concluded because there was no crime against the artist and her husband, and they were released with a residence document.