In August 2020, after an intense seven-year manhunt, the Egyptian security services achieved an important milestone in the country’s war on radical Islamic terrorism: the arrest of Mahmoud Ezzat, the acting general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and head of its military wing, responsible for a series of attacks in the country. Ezzat led the movement from his hideout after Muhammad Badie, the movement’s general guide, was arrested and imprisoned in 2013. Ezzat was sentenced in absentia to two death sentences and three life sentences.
Mahmoud Ezzat was the leading funder of the Muslim Brotherhood, coordinating contact with the global movement and its leaders, who fled to Qatar and Turkey after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi came to power in Egypt. According to a statement from the Egyptian Interior Ministry, during Ezzat’s Aug. 28 arrest in a residential apartment in east Cairo, security officials seized cell phones, computers and documents in the apartment, some of which were encrypted.
Egypt’s security sources have revealed that during his investigation, Ezzat provided a treasure trove of information about the Muslim Brotherhood’s financial activities in Egypt and its connections to Hamas and the global Muslim Brotherhood. Preliminary details are now being published in the Arab press.
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