An official source from the Egyptian Company for Mobile Services, Mobinil, on Monday denied the involvement of some of its officials in a recently-surfaced espionage case.
In a statement published by the state-run news agency MENA, the source said a report about the case published by the independent weekly Sawt al-Umma is merely a regurgitation of old news that was published years ago.
The source said the people whose names appeared in the paper do not work for Mobinil, and none of the company's employees are currently being investigated in connection with such a case.
Egyptian security recently arrested members of an alleged spy ring for Israel that includes two Israeli officers and four Egyptians, one of whom is a former female basketball player for Zamalek Club. The Supreme State Security Court is currently questioning the suspects before referring them for trial.
Investigations revealed that the members of the ring had two inter-linked communication offices in Cairo and England which they used to record the phone calls of some senior Egyptian government officials and divert them to a third office in Israel.
