Egypt has detained 29 individuals on suspicion of espionage on behalf of Turkey, as well as black market currency transfers, membership in a terror organization and money laundering, state-owned MENA news agency reported. Egyptian authorities raided the places of residences of the suspected spies where they seized high-tech electronic devices which the suspects are believed to have used. The nationalities of the suspects were not specified in the report. The country’s top prosecutor Nabil Sadek ordered the detention of the 29 individuals after the findings of an investigation by the Egyptian General Intelligence were submitted. The findings revealed that, together with the Muslim Brotherhood group, they allegedly plotted to overthrow the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and replace it with a Muslim Brotherhood-led regime. The suspects have allegedly recorded phone calls and monitored opinions by a number of civil society groups and social classes in Egypt. Then they relayed the collected information to Turkish intelligence services which used it to recruit local agents in Egypt, including Muslim Brotherhood members, to carry out hostile activities against the Egyptian state, according to the results of the investigations. The findings also suggested…
