Killing the goose that laid the golden eggs! Morsi and the Sawiris family

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Mar 6, 2013 at 09:53

Dr. Pipes

I wanted to bring to your attention that Morsi is very desperate to find money any place including black-mailing the owners of big businesses in Egypt through the tax system and shake them for money and in this case Morsi's government will not allow members of the Sawiris' family to leave Egypt and their names will be on the watch list if they travel back to Egypt as it seems that all of them have left Egypt after Morsi won the elections. Why? Morsi claims that they owe Egypt back taxes which is highly questionable at best

http://www.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=966281

And for the readers not familiar with this family this is the wikipedia page of Naguib Sawiris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naguib_Sawiris

He owns the biggest private company (telecommunications company) in the Middle East and Egypt with billions of dollars in assets and thousands of Egyptian employees and according to Forbes magazine he is the 374th on the list of the richest people in the world with personal fortune of 2.5B dollars and many assets in Egypt and outside of Egypt

His problems? He is a Copt and he has no like for Morsi or el-Ikhwan and as I wrote before el-ikhwan have no regard for what is good for Egypt and this is indeed a case of killing the goose that laid the golden eggs and I'm sure that Sawiris can start some other place and this is indeed the nature of capitalism and Egypt and the people of Egypt will be the losers

Again Kerry should have told Morsi to have some regards for those the likes of Sawiris that are great assets to the Egyptian economy

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