Egyptian Authorities Arrest Al-Sweerky over Financing Terrorist Group

The Egyptian security forces arrested on Saturday businessman Sayed Ragab Al-Sweerky, owner of "Al-Tawheed and Al-Nour", which sells fabrics, clothes and equipment.

Sources said, "It is decided that Al-Sweerky will appear before the investigation authorities to confront him with the charges of financing terrorist group and joining them."

Egyptian security accused him of financing and belonging to the "Muslim Brotherhood" terrorist group.

In January 2015, the Agouza Misdemeanor Court in Giza acquitted the owner of the shop of "Tawheed and Al-Nour" of the charge of "insulting the Egyptian flag", as shoes bearing the flag were sold in his chain of stores.

In 2002, the court sentenced Al-Sweerky to 7 years in prison on charges of combining 5 wives at one time, manipulating porce certificates and marrying with the help of legal marriage officers, then the sentence was reduced to 3 years after the appeal in 2003.

Sayed Ragab Al-Sweerky was born in 1945 in the Dakahlia governorate. He is married and has four children: Ahmed, Muhammad, Abdel-Rahman and Abdullah, from his first wife, Farida Othman.