A year after the ouster of Mubarak, the man responsible for rooting out government corruption, Gen. Mohamed Farid el-Tohamy, faced a very public barrage of allegations that he had deliberately covered up years of cronyism and self-dealing. Morsi fired the general, prosecutors opened an investigation, the news filled the papers and his career appeared to end in disgrace. But now the general is back, and more powerful than ever. His protégé and friend, Sisi, ousted Morsi about four months ago, and virtually the first move by the new government was to rehabilitate Tohamy and place him in charge of the general intelligence service, one of the most powerful positions in Egypt.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:15:03 +0000
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