CAIRO: Egypt s state security prosecutor on Saturday referred a Lebanese man and British woman to court on charges of fraud and money laundering of $ 2.5 million, a judicial source said. Salim Ali Al-Dada and British subject Rosa Samuel were accused of defrauding an Egyptian doctor of some LE 14 million ($ 2.5 million) and then trying to launder the money by transferring it to a Dutch bank and a British bank, said the source. The prosecution has asked Interpol to launch an investigation against the British defendant who is outside the country, while her Lebanese accomplice is in detention in Cairo. The Lebanese defendant passed himself off as the representative of an international investment consortium, the doctor told investigators. He lived in a large Cairo hotel surrounded by luxury and spending freely.
He moved in luxury cars and was always surrounded by a team of bodyguards, added the doctor, whose identity was not revealed. In 2002, Egypt passed a law against money laundering which resulted in it being removed, two years later, from the blacklist of the international Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for non-cooperative countries.
