The full confessions of the ex-Egyptian Minister of Health accused of receiving a bribe • Al-Marsad Newspaper

Al-Marsad newspaper: The investigations revealed the case of bribery of the Egyptian Ministry of Health, that the accused are: Mohamed Al-Ashhab, who is free of the Minister of Health, works as a senior specialist at the Misr Life Insurance Company, and the owner of Mr. Behairy, they brokered the reopening of two illegal private hospitals in exchange for receiving a bribe to use his influence.

Investigations showed, according to Cairo 24 website, that one of the defendants demanded for himself an amount of 5 million pounds as a bribe from the owners of a private hospital through other defendants, from which he obtained 600,000 pounds.

Hospital licenses

The ex-wife of the Minister of Health, accused of bribing the Ministry of Health, told the investigation authorities: One of my close friends of the hospital owners told me that this hospital had complete and proper paper, but that they were intransigent with them from the free treatment sector, and that they did not want to receive the paper for the licenses to operate it, and I asked him regarding the details of the problem, and all What he said to me, what I said in the investigation now, and even I do not know who are the owners of the hospital, and I did not ask him, nor did he tell me, they are who, but following he said regarding this problem, I spoke to Saif my eldest son on the grounds that he is my eldest son, not for another reason, and I asked him if he knew anyone in the ministry. In the free treatment sector, no, no, to see the papers of Dar Al-Saha Hospital, review it and get the licenses issued to them.

inspection committee

The ex-Minister of Health continued to the investigation authorities: When I spoke to Saif, he said that he would call them, but I didn’t know who would exactly call them to send a search committee to the hospital, and then I found Saif calling me and telling me the hospital representative is going to someone named Ahmed Yahya, and this is a doctor in the free treatment sector, but I don’t know what his position is. Exactly to receive the hospital papers from them and send them to a committee for examination.

He stated: “And this is what I conveyed to Dr. Sayed Attia Al-Fayoumi, and this talk was regarding two or three weeks ago. I don’t exactly remember a phone call between me and Dr. Sayed Attia Al-Fayoumi. After that, Dr. Sayed Attia Al-Fayoumi kept talking to me on the phone and saying that the inspection committee was still not talking and I was responding to him.” I say I will go back to my son’s sword and I will talk to you, and in fact I was talking to a sword and Saif was telling me he would call them and then he would talk to me once more and say that he spoke to them at the ministry and that they would drop the examination and I was telling what Saif was saying to Dr. Sayed Attia Al-Fayoumi.

cash crunch

He continued: “About ten days ago, Dr. Sayed called me on the phone and said that the examination committee went to the Dar Al-Saha Hospital, and that they had notes regarding the hospital, and that the hospital owners would implement the notes, and I told him at the time that they would make the notes and send them to the Ministry, and I don’t remember that following this call, any conversation happened between me and me And Dr. Sayed regarding Dar Al-Saha Hospital once more, and at the time regarding the subject of the Health Hospital, which I said regarding it now in the investigation, I had a financial liquidity crisis and I had a check for the amount of 400,000 pounds owed to the company that I am buying a villa for them with 12 million pounds in installments over nine years and among them Installments The check that I said on it.

The ex-Ministry of Health divorced clarified: “I did not have enough cash in the bank for the check, and then I called one person named A.S., who works as the sales manager in the company, and asked him that they postpone the check or cancel the contract, and this is what made me decide that I am selling the Nasr City apartment that I bought in 2015. Its price at the time was 280,000 pounds, in installments over a year and a half, and its area is approximately 165 meters. This is the apartment that I live in following separating from my wife, and when the issue of the check happened, I told Dr. Sayed Attia Al-Fayoumi that I wanted to sell it, and I chose Dr. Sayed. I tell him on this subject because he is my friend and at that time he told me He has a customer who buys the apartment and what happened between me, Dr. Sayed Al-Fayoumi and Muhammad Amin, who is the buyer who came to buy the apartment, meeting in a fish restaurant in the Fifth Settlement and this is the place where Dr. Sayed and I used to sit because it is next to the house of Dr. Sayed and this meeting happened regarding 3 Sevens.

Meet at the fish restaurant

And the accused continued in his confessions before the investigation authorities: “In this meeting, I agreed with Muhammad Amin that he would buy my apartment in Nasr City for 800,000 pounds, and following he paid the full price, he would make a contract to sell the apartment, and we agreed that he would give me an advance of 600,000 pounds, and he wanted to vacate the foot 500,000.” And when the remaining 300,000 pounds were completed, we would make the contract, but I told him that I would take 600,000 pounds, and when the 200,000 pounds would be completed, we would make the contract. In this sitting, I gave him a paper with the number of my bank account written on it in Bank A. Tharwat branch, and I told him he transferred 200,000 pounds and paid it. Also, the number of the Azar company’s account in AA Bank, but I don’t remember any branch, and I told him that 400,000 pounds would be transferred to their account, which is the value of the check owed to me.”

And he continued: “A day or two later, I do not remember exactly Muhammad Amin making bank transfers. He sent me the receipt of the transfers on WhatsApp on my number, and this was the only time that I met Muhammad Amin and his interview came following that, and we did not have any contacts following that, and for Salah Qassem. I am known and I saw you more than once in my life, and it was a month ago and she was in a fish restaurant, and at that time, Dr. Sayed Al-Fayoumi called me on the phone and told me to go and have dinner with him in a restaurant, and when I went I met him and he was with him Salah Qassem, and then Dr. Sayed introduced me to the accused.