The First Terrorism Circuit, convened in Badr and headed by Counselor Mohamed El-Saeed El-Sherbiny, is today considering the trial of 39 defendants in case number 580 of 2025, Fifth Settlement Felonies, known as the Currency Cell case. The referral order stated that between 2014 and April 15, 2020, the first to fourth defendants led a terrorist group aimed at disrupting public order, endangering community safety, obstructing constitutional and legal provisions, and preventing state institutions and public authorities from performing their duties, as well as violating citizens’ personal freedoms and harming national unity and social peace. The fifth to fourteenth and nineteenth to thirty-eighth defendants joined the group knowing its purposes, while the fifteenth to twenty-eighth and thirty-ninth defendants participated in a terrorist group established contrary to the law. All defendants were charged with financing terrorism.

Defendants from the eighth to the twenty-eighth were charged with committing a terrorist act by purchasing foreign currencies from sellers inside and outside the country outside the banking market, intending to disrupt public order, endanger community interests, harm economic resources by blocking currency inflows to reduce the country’s reserves, which harmed banking systems and the national economy.