Egypt's Prosecutor-General Nabil Sadek on Sunday referred eight individuals, including three policemen, to criminal court over charges of facilitating smuggling of foreign currency.
The defendants are accused of allowing bribe payers seeking to smuggle foreign currency to bypass customs search gates at Cairo International Airport.
Two fugitives, including the owner of a currency exchange company and a businessman, smuggled EGP 2 billion worth of foreign cash into the country over time by bribing the implicated policemen at the airport, the State Security investigation revealed.
The decision also included four currently detained defendants pending further investigation.
Top general Sadek urged authorities to arrest the defendants who are still at large.
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