The Public Prosecution referred Sabry Nakhnoukh and 10 co-defendants on Sunday to the Criminal Court on charges including “a show of force and threats of violence” and “robbery by force” over a brawl at a car dealership in the Fifth Settlement district of New Cairo.
Sabry Nakhnoukh, owner of Falcon security firm and a lawyer on-site at the scene were assaulted and a surveillance DVR was stolen.
The charges in Case No. 6262 of 2026 also include “making threats accompanied by demands, assault involving beating and insults, deliberate harassment, misuse of means of communication, and using a private account with intent to commit a crime,” according to a statement the Public Prosecution circulated on a WhatsApp group for journalists assigned to cover its news.
The move departed from the prosecution’s usual practice of publishing recent statements concerning the case on its Facebook page.
Following the referral, the Cairo Court of Appeal is expected to assign the case to one of its criminal chambers. The court’s technical office will be responsible for determining the judicial panel and setting a trial start date.
Among the charges listed in the Public Prosecution’s statement, “robbery by force” stood out as the most serious, carrying a sentence of up to life imprisonment if the assault is proven to have injured to the victims, which the prosecution’s first statement on the case had already indicated, regarding the injury of one of the car dealership’s workers.
The charge of “thuggery,” or show of force, is also punishable under the Penal Code by imprisonment followed by mandatory police surveillance upon release for a period equal to the prison sentence served.
In addition to assault and verbal abuse, prosecutors filed cybercrime charges stemming from threats or coordination allegedly carried out through mobile phones and social media accounts. They also filed charges of “making demands accompanied by threats,” which is punishable under Article 327 of the Penal Code by three to 15 years in prison.
Sunday’s statement made no mention of charges related to the parallel financial investigations previously announced against Nakhnoukh and the co-defendants. Those parallel probes were launched after police findings raised accusations of “money laundering,” leading to an asset freeze.
Legally, Nakhnoukh’s referral to trial in the assault and robbery case does not mean the financial investigation into money laundering has been closed. Under the Anti-Money Laundering Law, the Public Prosecution can sever financial charges and refer them to court separately.
On June 7, the Public Prosecution froze the assets and properties of Nakhnoukh and five co-defendants, barring them from disposing of them. The decision was part of financial investigations into the proceeds of alleged criminal activity uncovered during searches of Nakhnoukh’s residence, office locations, and the defendants’ phones.
In a previous statement, the prosecution noted that investigators found the defendants had laundered illicit proceeds through several methods designed to conceal their nature and sever their link to the illicit source.
Nakhnoukh and the other defendants were arrested on June 6 after a brawl at a car showroom. While the Ministry of Interior issued no statements on the incident, the Public Prosecution broke the official silence and issued a statement saying police investigations found that Nakhnoukh and others led “a criminal gang to impose control, practise thuggery by force and threat, and disturb public order, using a security and guarding company as a cover for their activity and using money and weapons to facilitate it.”
Based on those findings, the prosecution ordered the defendants’ arrest and authorized searches of Nakhnoukh’s residence and affiliated premises. Investigators seized the surveillance DVR reported stolen from the showroom, along with two automatic rifles, a machine gun, a pistol, several blank-firing and air-pressure weapons, nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition, five unlicensed communication devices, and 10 artifacts.
A forensic digital analysis of the defendants’ phones revealed media indicating involvement in “kidnappings involving sexual assault, unlawful detention accompanied by physical torture, forced signing of documents, the possession of unlicensed weapons, ammunition, and torture instruments, as well as exotic predators.”
Prosecutors said they are continuing to investigate those incidents alongside the parallel financial probe tracking the illicit proceeds.
