Mohamed Seif El Din and Samir Abdel Karim - Cairo
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has appointed the first attorney general of the Cairo Appeal Prosecutor, Chancellor Hamada El Sawy as the new Deputy General Prosecutor to succeed Nabil Ahmed Sadek.
The mandate of the current Attorney General expires on the eighteenth of this month, according to the Constitution, which stipulates that the mandate of the judge as Attorney General is for a period of only four years non-renewable.
Sisi's choice of Sawi came after he was authorized by the Supreme Judicial Council to select the Attorney General from among the vice presidents of the Court of Cassation, presidents of the courts of appeal and assistant prosecutors, and without adhering to the Supreme Judicial Council nominations or seniority rules, according to local media.
In October 2015, Attorney General Counsel Nabil Sadek, Counselor Hamada El-Sawy, was assigned as Senior Advocate to the Cairo Appeal Prosecution.
Al-Sawy took on many issues that preoccupied Egyptian public opinion.In August 2014, he conducted a preview of the events house of the Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque (east of Cairo) after the disengagement of Rabaa al-Adawiya in support of the late President Mohamed Morsi and who rejected the military coup in the summer of 2013.
In December 2016, he investigated the bombing of the Petra Church, where he was the first Advocate General of the Cairo Appeals Prosecution.
Close to power
Egyptian judicial sources revealed that Chancellor Hamada El Sawy, the new Attorney General in Egypt, is close to the Authority, and expected to continue the position of Attorney General in the coming period under the control of the Authority, which is usually denied by the Supreme Judicial Council, which is the Attorney General one of the most prominent members.
According to judicial sources who spoke to Al Jazeera Net, Al-Sawy is known for his proximity to the current authority.
She added that El-Sawi's son is Ahmed and is a deputy of the State Security Prosecution.
She pointed out that El-Sawy ordered when he took the position of the first public defender of the Cairo Appeal Prosecution to summon Chancellor Hisham Genena, the former head of the Central Auditing Organization and the former secretary general of the Judges Club, in 2016 for questioning in a communication submitted by former Minister of Justice Advisor Ahmed Al-Zind accusing Genena of insulting the Egyptian state. After the latter revealed the existence of large corruption in state institutions.
Counselor Hisham Genena, currently in custody pending another case, revealed at the time in press statements that the cost of corruption cases in Egypt amounted to 600 billion pounds.