A contractor who cooperated with the Egyptian army over the years accused President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and army commanders of wasting public money by spending on projects that target personal interests and purposes without studying or feasibility.
Mohamed Ali (an artist and owner of a contracting company that carries out Egyptian army projects) has charged Sisi and his wife Intisar, as well as current transport minister Major General Kamel al-Wazir (former head of the armed forces engineering body) and other military leaders, including Major General Essam El-Khouly Project Management in the Authority, Major General Mohamed El Behairy, Brigadier Yasser Hamza, and Lieutenant Colonel Mohamed Talaat.
This came through a video on his account on the social networking site Facebook, from his residence in the Spanish city of Barcelona, where he was forced to emigrate from Egypt because of what he said was fear of oppression by him and his children, as he put it.
To confirm his credibility, Ali explained that he has been cooperating with the Egyptian army in the implementation of construction projects for 15 years. He built the house of Sisi when he was minister of defense, stressing that his reputation is excellent with the Egyptian authorities. "Any collaborator with the army must be approved by the National Security and Military Intelligence, If he does like me to work with the presidency, it must be adopted there as well. "
Choueifat Hotel
He explained that his story began when the engineering commission instructed him to immediately begin excavating the foundations of a military intelligence service in the Choueifat area of Fifth Settlement (east of Cairo), and when asked about the urgency without feasibility studies for a project costing about 2 billion pounds (about 16.5 dollars); Leaders told him that the president must see the work already started, noting that the area is not tourist to accommodate the new hotel, as well as other hotels nearby.
He said it was up to a brigade of military intelligence named Sharif Salah, a close friend of Sisi, who wanted to build the hotel on land in front of his house.
He explained that the engineering authority commissioned the project by direct order and not through a tender involving several companies, which he considered the beginning of real corruption, pointing out that the cost comes through bank loans in the name of the contractor but with the guarantee of the army, which implicated many contractors with government and private banks.
He pointed out that he was the victim of disputes between the military intelligence owner of the project and the engineering body responsible for the implementation, and that Major General Sharif finally decided to stop the project until the completion of feasibility studies and new designs, which took a year, but the engineering body forced the contractor not to withdraw workers from the site, adding, When I told them it was causing heavy losses, they said do you want the president to know that the project is stalled? "
He confirmed that he lost about 220 million pounds because of this, and the engineering body refuses to pay.
Mamoura Resthouse
The Egyptian contractor and actor talked about another dramatic incident, where the engineering authority instructed him before the disputes to withdraw all workers and go to build a special break for Sisi in the area of Mamoura in Alexandria, and leaders told him that this is a top priority, because the president decided to spend the holiday there.
He explained that the break cost about 250 million pounds, as well as other amounts of furniture, pointing out that Ms. Intisar, wife of Sisi requested additional amendments by about 25 million pounds.
Ali accused Sisi of lying when he talked about the poverty of Egypt and Egyptians, while spending millions on himself and his family, and waste billions in projects such as the new administrative capital, pointing out that the revenues of the project to dig a new branch of the Suez Canal did not even cover the cost of the opening ceremony, although Sisi promised the Egyptians That it will achieve billions.
It is noteworthy that Mohamed Ali is an Egyptian actor, he joined the workshop to study acting before he participated in the film Al-Qashash in 2013, and then went to participate in the production of the film Al Maadia, which he participated in the acting as well.
Ali stirred great controversy during the Cairo Film Festival 2016 when his film "Righteousness II" participated in the festival competition, where he appeared as a producer and hero of the film, and established a large publicity of the film provoked provocation of journalists, and faced the accusation that he is acting on the basis of his money and not his talent, and that the management of the festival His film was screened in the festival competition with great publicity, but he proved himself when he presented the role of police officer Sharif in the series `` Taya '' directed by Amr Salama in Ramadan 2018, where some followers praised his performance.