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Court summons Suzan's father to attend hearings
A Cairo court on Wednesday ordered the father of a Lebanese singer slain in Dubai to come to Egypt to be cross-examined in trial hearings involving an Egyptian business tycoon.
- By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent
- Published: 23:15 November 19, 2008
- Former policeman Mohssen Al Sukkari, the prime defendant in the high-profile case, said that co-defendant, Moustafa, ordered him to murder Suzan.
- Image Credit: Gulf News Archive
Cairo: A Cairo court on Wednesday ordered the father of a Lebanese singer slain in Dubai to come to Egypt to be cross-examined in trial hearings involving an Egyptian business tycoon.
The Criminal Court in southern Cairo requested the Egyptian government to summon Abdul Sattar Tamim, the father of Suzan, the Lebanese pop singer found dead in her apartment in Dubai last July.
Hesham Tala'at Moustafa, one of Egypt's top real estate developers and a senior politician in President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party, is charged with ordering the killing of Suzan.
Suzan's father will be faced with claims that he had been caught smuggling 50 grams of cocaine into Egypt in 2004, court sources said on Wednesday. Over the weekend, the presiding judge of the court ordered a gag on media citing an alleged bid to "influence public opinion."
The court has, meanwhile, planned a hearing for December 20 to cross-examine two pathologists from the UAE who performed a post-mortem autopsy on the body of the slain singer.
Former policeman Mohssen Al Sukkari, the prime defendant in the high-profile case, said that co-defendant, Moustafa, ordered him to murder Suzan, with whom the latter had an allegedly failed affair, in return for $2 million (Dh7.36 million).
Moustafa, 49, has flatly denied the accusation.
The presiding judge of the court ordered a gag on media citing an alleged bid to "influence public opinion."
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