The International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood said it will take legal action against the Egyptian regime before the International Court of Justice in order to acquit the group of money laundering charges.
The Egyptian State Security Court on Saturday sentenced five Brotherhood members to between five and eight years in prison.
“I have appealed my sentence before a British court, which will hear my case next month,” said Ibrahim Mounir, the group’s representative in Europe, who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment.
Speaking from London, Mounir said it was difficult to launder money from the UK due to the UK’s strict regulations on money transfers.
From his residence in Yemen, Wagdy Ghoneim, who was also sentenced by the Egyptian court, said, “The court is incompetent and has no jurisdiction to pass any sentence on me.”
“We were raising donations for the group, that’s all,” he added. “And the security services of the countries from which we collect those donations would have arrested us had we been doing anything wrong.”
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
