08:00 p.m
Wednesday 27 July 2022
Books – Mahmoud El-Shorbagy and Mahmoud Said:
Today, Wednesday, the Cairo Criminal Court, held in the Fifth Settlement, is preparing to drop the curtain on the trial of 4 defendants in the case known in the media as “bribery of the Ministry of Health.”
The Supreme State Security Prosecution heard the statements of Saif Al-Din Muhammad Abdul Majeed Al-Ashhab as evidence in the “Health Bribery” case, which bears No. 2284 of 2021.
“Saif” said in the investigations – Masrawy obtained a copy of it – that his father, Muhammad Abdul Majeed Al-Ashhab (the first accused), works for the Misr Life Insurance Company, and his mother, Dr. Hala Mustafa Zayed, Minister of Health.
He added that the relationship with his father was cut off except for occasions only, and about a year ago his father began to restore the relationship between them, “things returned to normal… and my father kept asking me for services in the Ministry of Health,” explaining the last thing he asked me for in the month of 9 or 10 in 2021″ he said. There is one owner who is very close to him, his name is Sayed Al-Fayoumi, and he has a special request for a hospital called Dar Al-Saha, and he wants someone in the Ministry’s licensing department to get hospital licenses.”
And he continued, “At that time, I spoke to Ahmed Salama, the director of the office of the Minister of Health and the head of political communication – usually with his word in any request for me in the ministry – and when he spoke, I told him about the matter and that it belonged to my father and he said he is present, then Ahmed Salama called him “He said that the man from the hospital went to him and he had the card with him. With what I had my son I took from me at home when he came to visit my son who was tired, he saw the cards and asked, “He takes this one and I really took them” and then he was waiting under the house, his owner Sayed Al-Fayoumi.
And he continued, “When Ahmed Salama spoke to me, I told him that this man followed my father and I told them to see the man and he said he was fine and that he set the world for him… and I reached my parents with these words… After that, my father called me more than once because a committee from the Ministry of Health came down to conduct an inspection of the same hospital in order to conclude procedures. Her license… I called Ahmed Salama and sent him the hospital’s data.”
In the investigations, “Saif” denied his relationship with any of the owners of the “Dar Al-Saha” hospital.
Regarding his relationship with the officials of the Ministry of Health, he said that he knows the officials in the Ministry of Health office because his mother is the minister, including Ahmed Salama, the director of her office.
He pointed out that his father had previously requested requests in the ministry from his mother and from him, denying his knowledge of whether his father asked others or not.
Saif responded to a question about whether ministry officials were aware of his parents’ separation, not knowing if they knew about the issue of divorce or not, “I don’t know if my parents say something like this or not… But I see on WhatsApp a picture of me, him, my mother and my brothers And the picture is an installation, not real, but I have never said anything about it.”
The minister’s son made it clear during the investigations that the request of the first accused was implemented because his father communicated with Ahmed Salama, the director of the minister’s office.
He also denied his relationship with the accused, Mr. Attia Al-Fayoumi, saying: “I have no relationship with him, nor have I met him, and all I know from my father is that he is his owner.
In front of the prosecution, Saif Al-Ashhab, the son of the Minister of Health, denied his knowledge of a request and his father, Muhammad Abdul-Majid Al-Ashhab, took sums of money as a bribe from the owners of Dar Al-Saha Hospital in exchange for using his influence with ministry officials to form a committee from the Free Treatment Department to re-examine the hospital and prepare a report that includes the absence of technical observations in it In preparation for the issuance of the necessary licenses, and after the end of the investigation, the prosecution ordered the dismissal of Seif El-Din Mohamed from the prosecution’s brigades.
The Public Prosecution referred Mohamed Abdel-Majid Al-Ashhab, a senior specialist at the Misr Life Insurance Company, Mr. Attia Ibrahim Al-Fayoumi, a doctor and owner of Al-Fayoumi Hospital, Hussam El-Din Abdullah Fouda Hassan, and Mohamed Behairy, the Director General of the General Administration of Licensing at the Free Treatment Department.
The referral order stated that the first accused demanded for himself an amount of 5 million pounds and took him 600,000 pounds as a bribe from the owners of a private hospital through two other defendants, in return for using his influence to obtain from officials of the Ministry of Health decisions and benefits related to not implementing the decision to close the hospital for its management without a license, and preparing A forged report proves – contrary to the truth – that there are no violations, and the fourth accused has been charged with committing that forgery.
The Public Prosecution established evidence in the case from the statements of 13 witnesses, including the hospital owners who informed the Administrative Control Authority of the bribery incident upon its request, and Saira the bribed with the permission of the Public Prosecution until his arrest, as well as the statements of the two defendants who mediated in the bribery, and examination of the accused’s seized mobile phones and what was proven therein. Correspondence confirming the commission of the incident, as well as the Public Prosecution’s review of all hospital inspection reports, both valid and forged, and bank documents proving the fact that the bribery amount was submitted, in addition to what is supported by the witnessing and hearing of the Public Prosecution meeting and conversations that authorized its registration.