On 7 April 2026, the Cairo Criminal Court (First Circuit – Court of First Instance – Badr Mission) issued its verdict in Case No. 12430 of 2021 (Fifth Settlement Felonies), registered under No. 955 of 2017 (Supreme State Security), widely known in the media as the “Espionage with Turkey” case.
The court ruled that the criminal proceedings had lapsed due to death with respect to Ibrahim Mounir Ahmed Moustafa and Mahmoud Mohamed Mahmoud Ali.
It also ruled that the case was inadmissible due to res judicata for Sayed Mahmoud Ezzat Ibrahim, Mohamed Badie Abdel‑Maged Mohamed Sami, Mohamed Khairat Saad El‑Shater, and Ali Khalaf Ali Mohamed.
Life Imprisonment Sentences
The court sentenced the following defendants to life imprisonment:
Sayed Mahmoud Ezzat Ibrahim, Mahmoud Hussein Ahmed Hassan, Hussein Mohamed Al‑Qazzaz, Ahmed Amr Mohamed Al‑Sayed Derraj, Mohamed Gamal Ahmed Heshmat Abdel‑Hamid, Ahmed Mohamed Abdel‑Rahman Abdel‑Hadi, Mohamed Abdel‑Rahman Al‑Morsi Ramadan, Ali Ibrahim Ali Azzam, Hassan Abdel‑Azim Mohamed Morsi, Alaa El‑Din Ali Mohamed Hamouda, Mahmoud Rashad Jaafar Abdo, Shaaban Abdel‑Rahman Shaaban Mahmoud, Hussein Mokhtar Ali Shaaban, Rashad Mohamed Ali Bayoumi, Abdel‑Rahman Abdel‑Hamid Ahmed El‑Ber, Mohamed Saad Al‑Iwa Said Taha, Ali El‑Sayed Ahmed Mohamed Batikh, Hussein Mohamed Ibrahim Hussein, Mahmoud Sayed Abdullah Ghazlan, Magdy Maslah Ismail Shalash, Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed Mahmoud, Mohamed Rafiq Ibrahim Mohamed Manaa, Khaled Mahmoud Abdel‑Fattah Al‑Salkawi, Talaat Mohamed Fahmy Khalifa Abu Daqiqa, Ahmed Sobhi Abdo El‑Bastawisi Abdo, Mohamed El‑Sayed Abdo Hassan, Ahmed Azzam Farouk Ahmed Ali El‑Mihi, Hanan Hamdy Hassan Samak, Basma Ali El‑Sarawy Abdel‑Ghani Saad, Nehad Akman, Fahmi Bulent Yildirim, Cihangir Isbiler, Arif Ozkan, Mustafa Mohamed Gul, Isim Unal, Mustafa Demirci, and Mert Ararat.
15‑Year Rigorous Imprisonment
The court sentenced the following to 15 years of rigorous imprisonment:
Ali Khalaf Ali Mohamed, Nasser Mohamed Zaki Al‑Farash, Abdel‑Rahman Hossam Fawzi Abdel‑Hamid El‑Fiqi, Mohamed Tarek Khalil Abdel‑Maged, Hatem Hanafi Abdel‑Azim Othman, Mostafa Wasfi Mohamed Ahmed, Hatem Hamdy Hassan Ibrahim Samak, Mohamed Hamdy Hassan Ibrahim Samak, Ahmed Youssef El‑Sayed Abdel‑Rahim, Mohamed Mohamed Mostafa Razeq, Mohamed Gamal Saeed Mohamady, Mohamed Ahmed Roshdy Mohamed Hafez, Mohamed Salah Abdel‑Halim Helmy, Yasser Salah Abdel‑Halim Helmy, Hossam El‑Din Fathy Mohamed Hassanein Serag, Mohamed Abdel‑Rahman Hamza Ahmed, Bishoy Maurice Abdel‑Massih, Ali Abdel‑Samee Rashad Abdel‑Samee, Mostafa Nabil Rody Abdel‑Hamid Gomaa, Mahmoud Nabil Rody Abdel‑Hamid Gomaa, Hossam Mahmoud Mohamed El‑Saeed Qassem, Mohamed Hisham Mohamed El‑Husseini, Ayman Samir Rashwan Khalifa, Wael Samir Rashwan Khalifa, Ahmed Mahmoud Ahmed Abu El‑Ela, Ahmed Abdel‑Warith Ahmed Singab, and Islam Salah Abdel‑Halim Helmy.
10‑Year Rigorous Imprisonment
The court sentenced the following to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment:
Reda Desouky El‑Sayed Ghanem, Ayman Fathy Ali Mohamed, Emad Mahmoud Ahmed Ahmed (known as Emad Meteb), El‑Sadiq El‑Sayed El‑Sayed Mohamed El‑Hemeidi, Somaya Maher Ahmed Huzeima, and Shafiq Galal Hassanein Shalaby.
Other Sentences
The court sentenced Mohamed Yousry Mohamed Eid, Mohamed Zohry Mohamed Abdel‑Rasoul, and Karim Mohamed Arafa Morsi to five years’ imprisonment.
It sentenced Omar Essam Rashad Abdel‑Hadi to three years’ rigorous imprisonment, with police surveillance for three years following the completion of his sentence.
The court also imposed a one‑year suspended prison sentence (suspended for three years) on Rasha Maher Emam Badawy and Salah Mohamed Salah Abdel‑Halim Helmy, with one year of police surveillance after the verdict becomes final.
Acquittal
The court acquitted Mohamed Shaaban Mohamed Abdel‑Hafeez of all charges brought against him.