Habib al-Adli
Habib al-Adli ( Arabic حبيب العادلي, DMG Ḥabīb al-ʿĀdilī ; * March 1, 1938 ) is an Egyptian politician . From 1997 until the revolution in Egypt in 2011 , in the course of which he was dismissed, he was interior minister of his country in the cabinets of Ganzuri I , Abaid and Nazif . At the beginning of May 2011 he was sentenced to several years imprisonment for money laundering and illegal enrichment.
Career
Al-Adli graduated from the Egyptian Police Academy in 1961 and was employed in the Drugs and Criminal Police Department in the Ministry of the Interior. In 1965 he entered the Mabahith amn ad-daula al-ulya . From 1982 to 1984 he was seconded to the Foreign Ministry, which at that time was headed by Kamal Hassan Ali . In 1993 he was assistant to the interior minister and in 1996 became head of the state security department in the interior ministry. After the attack in Luxor in 1997 , Hosni Mubarak appointed him to the Ganzuri I cabinet in November 1997 to put down a suspected Islamic uprising. He supported a legislative initiative that gave children of one Egyptian parent Egyptian citizenship, which affects parental custody . Al-Adli is married and has children.
Accuse
Various charges were brought against al-Adli after the fall of the Mubarak regime. He was charged with corruption and money laundering, and at the beginning of May he was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He is also suspected of having given various illegal orders, including the order to shoot protesters, during the revolution, and ordered the January 1, 2011 terrorist attack in Alexandria .
While al-Adli's case was being dealt with, riots broke out in front of the courthouse in late June 2011. Demonstrators threw stones at the security forces and criticized the length of the process.
Money laundering and corruption
On February 4, 2011, the public prosecutor forbade him to leave the country and his bank accounts were frozen.
Habib al-Adli was arrested on February 17, 2011 on suspicion of misappropriation of public funds and corruption. At the same time, the former Minister of Construction Ahmed al-Maghrabi , the former Minister of Tourism Soheir Garranah , and the steel industrialist Ahmed Ess were also arrested on suspicion of corruption.
Al-Adli appeared in court on the weekend of March 6th. The charges were corruption and money laundering . Al-Adli protested his innocence. The trial was postponed to early April 2011.
On May 5, 2011, a Cairo court sentenced him to 12 years in prison for money laundering and personal gain. He was the first senior member of the Mubarak regime to be sentenced to prison.
Another - not yet decided - case against al-Adli involves an order to manufacture new license plates for all of Egypt. In 2008, Al-Adli - in cooperation with the former Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif , as well as the former Finance Minister Youssef Boutros Ghali - ordered metal plates for vehicle license plates (blanks) from a German company at far inflated prices in order to deliberately misappropriate publicly To enrich money personally. The public prosecutor's office accuses the defendants of having awarded the contract directly to the German company without a public tender. The price of 24.8 million euros agreed with this company was almost double the market value at the time.
Order to shoot
According to an Egyptian newspaper report, investigations are underway against him for instructions to police officers to shoot protesters, instructions on torture in police stations which allegedly resulted in dozens of deaths, terrorization of citizens, looting during protests and the release of convicted criminals from prison .
Additional charges were brought against al-Adli in late March. He and four heads of the security forces (Ismail al-Shaer, Adly Fayed, Ahmed Ramzi and Hassan Abdel Rahman) were accused of "deliberately and wantonly" killing protesters during the protests against Egypt's now resigned President Husni Mubarak . Prosecutor General Abdel Megid Mahmud accused al-Adli of having given the security forces the order to shoot during the mass protests, thereby ordering the disproportionate use of force. "They killed and wounded a number of citizens as they protested peacefully in these provinces." ( "They killed and wounded numerous citizens while they peacefully ... protested" ) (Abdel Megid Mahmud) As the master of the police and the now defunct domestic secret service Mabahith amn ad-daula al-ulya (SSIS), al-Adli bore decisive responsibility for the order of the shooting order. During the mass demonstrations that began on January 25, 2011 and forced Mubarak to resign on February 11, riot police and armed thugs of the regime killed 365 people according to initial official information. Human rights organizations spoke of 684 dead. A report by an official commission of inquiry found in April 2011 that at least 846 people were killed. The official Mena news agency reported that the attorney general had ordered al-Adli and his four employees to be referred to the criminal court in Cairo.
Terrorist attack in Alexandria
The Saudi television broadcaster al-Arabiya announced on February 7, 2011 that the Egyptian attorney general was investigating allegations against al-Adli who instigated the terrorist attack on January 1, 2011 in Alexandria.
On March 5, 2011, the Arabic-language news channel on al-Arabiya television reported that Habib al-Adli had set up a unit in 2004 to perform false flag operations . About this unit it is said that they u. a. also allegedly involved in the terrorist attack on the Coptic Church on New Year's Day 2011 in Alexandria.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Hassan al-Alfi | Egyptian Minister of the Interior November 1997 to January 29, 2011 |
Mahmoud Wagdy |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b “No responsibility” for violence. In: ORF . February 4, 2011, accessed February 4, 2011 .
- ^ Riots in front of the courthouse in Cairo. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 26, 2011, accessed June 27, 2011 .
- ↑ Former Egyptian interior minister arrested in: Spiegel Online of February 17, 2011
- ↑ https://www.fr.de/politik/kein-pardon-schergen-11400353.html
- ↑ Twelve years imprisonment for the former interior minister. In: ORF . May 5, 2011, accessed May 5, 2011 .
- ↑ Handelsblatt April 17, 2011: Corruption. Egyptian politicians charged with deal with German company
- ^ Taz April 18, 2011: German businessman indicted
- ^ Prosecution investigates complaints against dismissed interior minister. In: Almasry Alyoum . February 4, 2011, accessed February 9, 2011 .
- ↑ BBC March 23, 2011: Egypt ex-interior minister Habib el-Adly to face trial
- ↑ BBC March 23, 2011: Egypt ex-interior minister Habib el-Adly to face trial
- ^ Investigation into riots in Egypt: Report raises serious allegations against Mubarak. ( Memento from July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Die Zeit-Online March 24, 2011: Egypt's ex-interior minister in court for violence against demonstrators
- ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung March 24, 2011: Ex-Interior Minister charged with the death of demonstrators
- ↑ BBC March 23, 2011: Egypt ex-interior minister Habib el-Adly to face trial
- ↑ Ex-minister suspected behind Alex church bombing. (No longer available online.) In: al-Arabiya . February 7, 2011, archived from the original on January 20, 2013 ; accessed on February 9, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Mubarak Regime 'Provoked' Attacks on Christians
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adli, Habib al- |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1938 |