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Egyptian parliament member arrested in Lebanese diva's slaying
Hisham Talaat Mustafa, a member of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party, has been charged with ordering the July murder of an alleged ex-lover, singer Suzanne Tamim.
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
8:00 AM PDT, September 2, 2008
CAIRO -- A real estate billionaire and member of the Egyptian parliament was arrested Tuesday in the slaying of a troubled Lebanese diva in a tale that has fascinated the Arab media with its plot twists, whiffs of revenge and lurid glimpses into the echelons of celebrity and power.
Hisham Talaat Mustafa, a member of President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party, was charged with ordering the murder of his former lover, Suzanne Tamim, according to the Egyptian prosecutor's office. The singer was found in her Dubai apartment in July with her throat slit and multiple stab wounds.
The investigation led to former Egyptian police officer Muhsen Sukkari, who worked as a security guard at the Four Season's Hotel in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh. Mustafa's real estate group built the hotel and Sukkari confessed to police that the billionaire paid him $2 million to kill Tamim, according to Egyptian prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmoud.
Indications that Mustafa was allegedly involved in the case intensified two weeks ago when the Egyptian government forbade the nation's media from reporting on the story. Mustafa runs one of country's largest development companies, Talaat Mustafa Group, and is a member of the upper house of Parliament with close ties to the Mubarak family.
Tamim was discovered on a TV talent show in Lebanon in 1996. Her career was reportedly plagued by personal problems, including legal battles with her estranged husband and music producer, Adel Maatouk. She and Mustafa allegedly became involved in a relationship, meeting in Cairo and Dubai.
Dubai authorities quickly hinted that the slaying had more to do with passion than money. Dubai police Maj. Gen. Khamis Mattar Mazeina told the Arab media: "It was a semiprofessional killing, but unfortunately for him, he left a vital clue behind. . . . The way in which the killing took place suggests a revenge motive, as nothing was taken from the apartment and nothing was disturbed."
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Ahhhh come on he'll not get prosecuted and most likely will not even see a jail cell from the inside. All the facts will get distorted, evidence will vanish and justice will not be done as usual.
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Yes if he is tried in Egypt, but what about in Dubai? Do you think Egypt's influence extends that far? I hope not, I hate injustice ....
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He's charged but really his involvement needs to be proven. And he won't get extradited; the Egyptian government won't let this happen.
"... One of Egypt's most prominent businessmen and politicians, Moustafa today was stripped by parliament of his legal immunity..... Talaat Moustafa Group, the country's biggest publicly traded property company, fell the most ever in Cairo trading today after saying Moustafa will step down as chairman and chief executive officer and be replaced by his elder brother Tarek Talaat Moustafa..."
"Because we are a conspiracy theories loving people , you will find the craziest theories about every incident or accident in Egypt. Now there are some people prompting the crazy conspiracy theory that Hisham Talaat Mustafa is victim of Emaar’s Mohamed Ali Alabbar and that’s the later decided to get rid of his Egyptian Competitor by accusing him of killing Suzan Tamim.
The Conspiracy theories depend on these facts :
Susan Tamim was murdered in her luxurious apartment at Emaar’s Dubai Marina Emaar’s main competitor in Egypt is TMG. With my all respect do you know how big is Emaar ?? Emaar works in 10 countries including the United States not only in Egypt , for God Sake it was only last month when Hisham Talaat Mustafa announced that he will build a new project in Saudi Arabia and I do not have to guess that Walid Ibn Talal helped him to seal the deal !!??
If Alabbar wants to get from his competitors and is capable of doing so , why he did not get from DAMAC’s Hussain Sajwani !!??
Guys it seems that Hisham was behind it , even if Alabbar hosted Tamim in his building to revenge from his competitor , he did not send someone to kill to her !!
Alabbar is not stupid to stand against Mustafa in especially Mustafa is from the regime’s men!!"
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Suzan murder suspect will not be extradited
By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent and Wafa Issa, Staff Reporter
Published: September 05, 2008, 00:21
Dubai/Cairo: Authorities in Dubai will not seek the extradition of suspects in the murder of a Lebanese singer because the UAE and Egypt do not have an extradition treaty, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, Dubai Police chief, said on Thursday....
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Apparently he has been arrested and will be sent to UAE
Cairo: A businessman and lawmaker from Egypt's ruling party has been charged with involvement in the killing of Lebanese singer Suzan Tamim in Dubai, Egypt's Prosecutor-General said on Tuesday.
Abdul Majid Mahmoud ordered that Hesham Tala'at Mustafa, chairman of one of Egypt's biggest construction companies, go on trial after a suspected killer claimed in investigations that Mustafa had paid $2 million to have Tamim murdered.
Tamim, 30, was found dead in a Jumeirah Beach Residence apartment in Dubai on July 28. Weeks ago, Egyptian authorities arrested a former Egyptian police officer and two hotel security personnel, who had reportedly confessed to having killed Tamim on behalf of an Egyptian businessman.
A statement released on Tuesday by the Prosecutor-General's office said Egypt had pursued investigations into the case upon request from authorities in the UAE, with which Egypt has a judicial cooperation pact. "The Prosecutor-General has ordered that the defendants be banned from leaving the country," added the statement.
Mustafa is a member of Parliament and a leading official in the ruling National Democratic Party. Mahmoud said he had been probed after notifying parliament.
Mustafa is also chairman of Tala'at Moustafa Group, one of the biggest companies in the booming real estate sector in Egypt.
His brother Tareq took over the chairmanship on Tuesday. The indictment said Mustafa, who is in custody, "took part through incitement, agreement and assistance with the first defendant in killing the victim in revenge".
Dubai Police said the 31-year-old singer was stabbed several times and had her throat slit several hours before her body was discovered.
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Cnn reported that there is a tape recording of Mustafa talkng to hitman about details of how she must be killed and the price he offered to pay once she was killed;
After seening this on CNN I did a web search of Suzan. She had many problems with men in her life. This is such a sad and tragic story
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CAIRO, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Egyptian developer Talaat Moustafa TMGH.CA, its share price hit by the arrest of its former chairman in a murder case, said on Wednesday its assets were worth 34.5 billion Egyptian pounds ($6.37 billion).
It said the valuation, made on June 30, came from the London-based international property company CBRE (CB Richard Ellis) and was 74 percent up on the valuation one year earlier.
At the current market price of about 7 pounds a share, Talaat Moustafa Group has a market value of 14.2 billion pounds, according to Reuters data.
The share price was about 8.20 pounds immediately before the killing of Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim on July 28. It hit a low of 4.86 on Sept. 3 after Egyptian prosecutors charged Chairman Hesham Talaat Moustafa with hiring a former police officer to carry out the killing in return for $2 million.
Hesham's brother, Tarek Talaat Moustafa, has taken over the chairmanship of the company, which is building a large luxury town in the desert east of Cairo. ($1 = 5.42 Egyptian pounds) (Writing by Jonathan Wright; Editing by Quentin Bryar)
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Talaat Asked Sukkari to Bring him Tamim's Head
By Sami Abdel Radi 11/9/2008
Informed sources revealed new details in the murder of Lebanese pop star Suzan Tamim, in which renowned businessman Hisham Talaat and police officer Mohsen el-Sukkari are accused.
According to the investigation, Talaat asked Sukkari to behead Tamim and bring him her head to get the remaining sum they agreed on.
Sukkari said in the investigation that Talaat extremely hated Tamim and wanted to take revenge on her and so he asked him to behead her, the sources added.
The forensic report revealed that Tamim's ringer finger was broken, which means she resisted the killer, in addition to eight stabs at the neck and chest. Tamim's resistance slightly injured the killer.
The report said the clothes found in the building where Tamim was residing were stained with blood and the DNA analyses proved that the blood was of Sukkari.
In a related development, sources close to Talaat's family said there is a tendency to pay blood money to Tamim's father to the value of $20 million in return for giving up his rights.
A judicial source said in case Tamim's father accepted the blood money Talaat might be sentenced to three years in prison only.
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According to a close friend to the Lebanese singer Suzan Tamim, which was killed recently in Dubai, the Egyptian businessman Hisham Talaat Mostafa -accused of inciting Suzan’s murder- offered her 50 million dollars to accept his marriage proposal. Reported the British newspaper Sunday Times.
At the same time, some media sources pointed out that this issue dominated the Egyptian television more than Ramadan's series, where the development of this crime made the headlines of most newspapers, which wanted to uncover the motives.
The "Sunday Times" held an interview with the world champion in kick-boxing, the Iraqi Riyad Al-Azzawi, who confirmed he had married Suzanne Tamim.
The newspaper quoted Al-Azzawi criticizing British police for failing to take any measures in order to protect Tamim, although he had informed the London Metropolitan Police about the threats his wife had received from the man who planned to kill her.
The newspaper quoted Al-Azzawi - for the first time – stating how the Lebanese singer was afraid for her life saying that she would die by the hands of a “professional killer” rent by her former lover.
Al-Azzazi also said that he has informed the London Metropolitan Police about the dangerous threats that his "wife" Susan Tamim had received; but the police failed to engage in any conduct to protect her pointing out that he spent 18 months in London with Susan during which they lived in an atmosphere of anxiety and fear for her life.
The Iraqi boxer claimed that his wife’s “former lover", offered her 50 million U.S. dollars to persuade her into marrying him, and threatened her that he would pay the amount of one million U.S. dollars for those who would kill her in case she refused his proposal.
Azzazi described how he met the beautiful Lebanese singer about two years ago at the famous "Harrods" in central London, which is owned by the Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed.
He added: Tamim was receiving some of these threats at that period, so, being a world champion at kick-boxing he offered to help & providing her with protection, and thus they got closer to each other and got married last year.
Al-Azzawi revealed that he and his wife had been chased and subjected to harassment; they have also received a series of threats over the phone when they were living together in London.
He said he believes those threats were from the rich Egyptian businessman Hisham Talaat Mostafa ", who was linked previously to Suzan, and that those who pursued them were committing those actions in his name."
The “Hisham & Susan” Series
On the other hand, it seems that the tragedy that the “Suzan Tamim story” carries was better than many of Ramadan's series at the Egyptian television, as the development of this crime made it to the headlines of most newspapers.
The Egyptians have disregarded this Ramadan's series and turned to follow the “Hisham & Susan” series, which contains the most dramatic of all the Suspense elements: "Love, money, businessmen, artists, lovers, another husband, chases between various capitals, and of course the ultimate of all drama, a gruesome murder".
Then the C.S.I discovering threads leading to the murderer and his partner, evidence providing, then comes the confessions, and the arrest of the key partners in crime the millionaire businessman and the fired policeman (according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabs on the Sunday, September 7th issue).
The serial events do not stop at this point, but yet, they continue to thrill. The State interferes through its financial institutions in order to save the stock market from collapsing, as it bought on the first day of the drama 40% of the total securities, and the giant company that was headed by the millionaire businessman launched a new ad campaign that cost millions to reassure all the buyers of its housing projects that all of that was just pure “Hearsay”.
As indicated in the newspaper, the “Hisham & Susan” series with all its realistic happenings overthrew the tens of serials that rely on exaggeration and thrill and the traditional mixture such as: “Tamer W Shawkeya”, “Sharaf Fat’h Al-Bab” and “Al-Daly”, which incidentally tells the life story of a millionaire businessman who also built his fortune from the real estate and construction business.
And it’s been told that ‘Al-Daly” is most likely telling the story of the late milliardaire Osman Ahmed Osman, one of the biggest businessmen and the founder of the most important real estate construction company in the entire history of modern Egypt.
And although all the stories of struggle for money and influence, power and judgment that the “Al-Daly” series exposes, still, all these events are not up to what is happening in real life these days, where millions are furious because of the corruption of great businessmen, and their money & power raising as the newspaper says.
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Egyptian tycoon denies ordering death of singer
The Associated Press Published: September 20, 2008
CAIRO, Egypt: A powerful Egyptian business tycoon with close ties to President Hosni Mubarak has denied he hired a hit man to slay a Lebanese pop singer in Dubai, according to a letter published Saturday in leading pro-government newspaper.
Hisham Talaat Moustafa spoke out for the first time since his arrest earlier this month on charges alleging he hired a former Egyptian police officer for US$2 million to kill former girlfriend, Suzanne Tamim, who was found decapitated in her apartment in July.
Moustafa — a lawmaker and top ruling party member — said in the letter published in Akbhar al-Youm that he is innocent and accused "enemies of success" of fabricating the case against him.
"Knives have been sharpened, tearing at my flesh," Moustafa wrote in the letter from behind bars at one of Egypt's largest prisons.
"These lies will not be able to move the great pyramids I have constructed in the Egyptian economy," wrote Moustafa, who is the founder of the construction and real estate company, Talaat Moustafa Group or TMG Holding. His brother took over as CEO since his arrest on Sept. 2.
Moustafa, whose trial is set to open Oct. 18, did not specify exactly who he thought was behind his arrest.
"In the midst of all my work, I didn't realize that success has enemies," he wrote. "God's generosity provoked the envy and antagonism around me."
Tamim's slaying caught millions of Egyptians and Arabs across the region with surprise, not only because of the alleged involvement of the real estate mogul and well-connected businessman in a murder case, but in the mere arrest of those known for so long as the untouchables.
When Moustafa's name first appeared in media reports weeks before his arrest, he denied a role and complained on Egyptian television that the rumors hurt the economy. The government promptly banned press reports on the murder, suggesting that Moustafa was off-limits.
Moustafa, who is close to Mubarak's son, Gamal, is one of Egypt's top billionaires, the owner of luxury hotels and beach resorts and a leading force in building Western-style suburbs ringing Cairo for the upper-class.
His defense attorney, Farid el-Deeb, said in an interview with the same newspaper that the case had "many breaches" including the absence of a strong motive.
"Hisham loved Suzanne. ... He would have married her except for his family's objection," el-Deeb said about his client, who is already married and has three children. His conservative family objected to him taking a pop singer as another wife.
Under Islam, a man can marry up to four wives, though the practice is not very common in Egypt.
Local papers have suggested that Moustafa ordered Tamim's death after she allegedly withdrew US$30 million from his bank accounts, something his lawyer has denied.
Truly I wouldn't be surprised if Moustafa's involvement could not be proven during the court trial which will take place next month in Egypt.
If it does he'll get off with paying blood money to Tamin's father.
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EGYPT: Murder, accusations and an angry billionaire
In a move to counter the barrage of media coverage of his case, Egyptian businessman Hisham Talaat Mustafa recently wrote a letter to a newspaper denying that he ordered the slaying of a pop diva and dismissing allegations against him as the work of jealous foes.
Hisham_talaat_mostafa_3_2“I did not know that success brings enemies,” read the letter. “I am sure that the tide will turn against those who envy me and that the light of truth will rise to expose their lies and everybody will know that these allegations were too trivial and cannot destroy or shake the pyramids that I built for the Egyptian economy."
In his piece published in the weekend edition of Akhbar El-Youm, the real estate mogul and member of Parliament sought to restore the image of a successful, pious and benevolent businessman that was severely shaken by his implication in the murder of Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim in the United Arab Emirates in late July.
“I keep asking myself every moment in my cell: Why is this happening to me? Why am I facing all this distortion and destruction and lies that nobody faced before? Why is this happening to me while everyone knows who I am and how I am disciplined, serious and committed to my faith and my duties towards God?” added the letter.
The arrest last month of business tycoon Mustafa, who used to enjoy close ties with President Hosni Mubarak’s family, took many observers by surprise. Mustafa is expected to stand trial next month on charges of ordering the killing of the singer, who was allegedly his former lover. The case has been making front-page news and a provocative source of online gossip since August.
“Would any rational person commit such an infamous crime?” asked Mustafa. “Is it possible for me to act that unwisely after all the success I achieved? Would I act this way after having created an international entity which has become is a source of pride for me and Egypt? Did anyone ask himself this question?”
I see what she looks like, very pretty. Then I see his ugly mug, I don't quite understand how they got together.....
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Cracks among the defence lawyers for Egyptian business tycoon Hesham Talaat Moustafa, charged with involvement in the killing of a Lebanese singer, have surfaced as a key lawyer signaled readiness to quit.
Lawyer Shawqi el-Sayed has expressed disappointment that Farid el-Deeb, another member in the defence team, denied that he is not among the team. "This is unjustified and illogical," said el-Sayed. "I am a famous lawyer and am not seeking more fame," he added. A criminal court has set October 18 for beginning the trial of Moustafa, an ex-chairman of one of Egypt's leading real-estate developers, and Mohssen el-Sukkri, a retired policemen, on charges of involvement in killing Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim in her luxury apartment in Dubai on July 28. El-Sukkri said that Moustafa, 49, had ordered him to kill Tamim in return for 2 million dollars. Moustafa, an ex-MP, has flatly denied the accusation and blamed what he called enemies of success for seeking to tarnish his image. Both defendants face the death penalty if convicted.In remarks published on Saturday, Farid el-Deeb, the key lawyer for Moustafa, said that he and Hafez Farhoud were the only members of the defence team for the business tycoon."I cannot work under such conditions," said el-Sayed. "This difference (among the defence lawyers) is not in Moustafa's interest."
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