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El-Beheiri: Brotherhood's Strong Man Accused of Embezzlement!


Sat 27 Jul 2019 | 01:56 PM
Nawal Sayed

Muslim Brotherhood prominent figure Amir Bassam accused three powerful leaders of embezzling some of the group’s properties and assets, according to a leaked voice recorder spread recently on social media platforms.

One of the three names is Mohamed El-Beheiri; an unknown name to the media. However, El-Beheiri is deemed as one of the group’s powerful men who has been taking in charge the terrorist organization’s financial, organizational and administrative files.

Beheiri's Profile

Security sources revealed that the 77-year old man is known as a “mysterious man” and the group’s “secrets’ protector”, according to Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news website.

El-Beheiri was accused of so-called 1965 Organization Case during the era of late President Gamal Abdel Nasser. He was sentenced a life imprisonment with hard labor.

After his release from prison, he traveled to Yemen on assignment from the Brotherhood's leaders. He took charge of the Egyptian Brotherhood’s members living in Yemen working at schools and educational institutions there.

He also had close relations with the Brotherhood leaders in Yemen.

Terrorist Group of the Muslim Brotherhood's Logo

In the mid-nineties, he moved to Sudan where he managed coordination between the group’s members in Egypt and Sudan. In addition, he oversaw the investments of the group there.

El-Beheiri's responsibilities have grown as he joined the group’s international organization and became Brotherhood's official in Africa.

He also assumed some administrative and organizational files in international organization in London.

During the Arab Spring in 2011, he returned back to Egypt and became in charge of coordination among the group’s regional branches in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and Sudan.

Brotherhood Internal Conflicts

After fleeing Egypt towards Turkey, Qatar and the UK, the group, banned in Egypt since 2013, has witnessed splits over financial and intellectual issues.

Most of the Brotherhood group’s conflicts are not announced to its regular members, but this is seen as an implication of a likely collapse.

Muslim Brotherhood Powerful Man Mahmoud Ezzat- Archive Photo

Handing over some associates to the group in Turkey and Malaysia to Egypt will deepen the rifts in the group. Thus, it’s expected that some of the group’s members will lose trust in the leaders who could not protect them, while the leading members are free and having fun in London and Doha.

In this regard, El-Beheiri played an important role to contain the group’s internal rifts and introduced himself as a third alternative “Guide” amid absence of Mohamed Badie, who is in jail in Egypt, and Mahmoud Ezzat, whose location is not known to most of the banned group’s members.

He paid several visits to Turkey recently to reduce the gap between the group’s members and the leaders.

Therefore, accusing him of embezzlement is elaborated as a failure to contain the group’s intra-conflicts.

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