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The Egyptian people are now free to enjoy their poverty, unemployment, corruption and humiliation. |
This acquittal means that employees of the ministry of justice, the public prosecutor's office, the anti-corruption department, the unit for combating money laundering, the general department of public funds criminal investigation police, and the administrative control authority will no longer receive benefits or travel allowances for their frequent meetings abroad to discuss the recovery of allegedly looted funds.
We will no longer hear about those institutions that "scavenged" for money under the pretext of recovering Egypt's looted funds from banks around the world, nor about the organisations that repeatedly claimed they were getting closer to recovering the funds, including several popular asset-recovery initiatives and judicial committees, one of which was led by Egypt's minister of justice himself.
Regulatory authorities will no longer be burdened with uncovering looted funds, because no one has been found guilty of looting.
We will no longer hear promises of recovery, endlessly repeated since the 25 January revolution by Hussein Tantawi, Mohamed Morsi, Adly Mansour and Abdul Fatah al-Sisi.
We will no longer hear about the brilliant ideas by economists and analysts who demand the looted funds be invested in projects that would provide jobs for millions of young Egyptians.
The Egyptian people are now free to enjoy their poverty, unemployment, corruption and humiliation. Forty percent of them live below the poverty line and four million Egyptian children will go to sleep hungry tonight. Millions of young Egyptians will have nothing to do but hang out in cafes and on street corners.
Case closed.
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This is an edited translation from our Arabic edition.