Egyptian businessman Mohamed El-Amin remanded in custody on charges of "human trafficking"

On Saturday, the Egyptian Public Prosecution decided to remand the Egyptian businessman, Mohamed Al-Amin, in pretrial detention, pending investigations, accusing him of “trafficking in human beings and indecent assault on girls.”

The Public Prosecution said in a statement that it had ordered "the detention of the accused, Mohamed Al-Amin, pending investigations, for accusing him of trafficking in human beings (...) and they are victim girls who were inmates of an orphanage owned by him in Beni Suef, by exploiting their weakness with the intent of sexually assaulting them."

The prosecution's statement stated that it had received a notification from the National Council for Motherhood and Childhood on the tenth of December regarding the publication on a social media page of what the accused had done in an orphanage owned by him in the Beni Suef governorate in the south of the country.

The Public Prosecution heard the statements of the "victims who regularly witnessed the accused's indecent assault without their consent, and some of them took him to his villa on the northern coast for a week so that he could indecently assault them, and he asked them for immoral acts."

Police investigations confirmed "the validity of the accused's commission of the crime", but he "denied the accusations against him," according to the same source.

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