Egyptian X-Files : Witness or accomplice in a crime

First of all I must apologize ,this post should have been posted from weeks ago but unfortunately I had to delay it week after week because of the current events that were more important then. Still it is never too late especially that the Ashraf Marwan’s X-File is not closed yet and it is still closing buzz especially with the latest statements of Former Ambassador Mohamed Bassiouny from Two weeks ago , which I would mention in another post. .
If you remember in the early days after the fall of Marwan from his balcony, the name of his assistant appeared with her statements, also the statements of his business partners who were having meeting at the same time found their way to the media.
The long time assistant and secretary of Ashraf Marwan is or was Azza Abd El-Hafiz, the daughter of the long time secretary and friend of President Sadat Fawzy Abd El-Hafiz. “In the photo on the right side of President Sadat in the 6^th of October Military parade celebration 1981”
For 20 years she was the right hand and the secretary of Marwan along with her husband Assam El-din Shawaky. Assam Shawaky worked for years Marwan in a Chemicals factory in UK till he owned some shares in that factory. Marwan owned 90% of this factory and the rest
owned by others including Assam. Assam decided to end his partnership with Marwan before his death; in fact he ended minutes before Marwan’s fall and that’s why he was holding a meeting with the rest of the board of directors in the Institute of Directors’ building at 116 Pall Mall*. If you remember there was an important a Bulgarian eye witness that saw Marwan being thrown by two Middle Eastern men from this building. It turned out that he was not alone because Shawaky and those people in the meeting saw Marwan falling from his balcony, but without two Middle Eastern men in their version of the story; and that what made Mona and her sons go mad and angry from Shawaky and his wife.
Scotland Yard considered Shawaky and the rest of the board of directors in the meeting as key witnesses whose statements will determine whether it was a murder or a suicide. Beside Shawaky, there are: British Mike Parkhurst; the secretary of Marwan and two Hungarians personals.
According to Shawaky statement’s; Marwan was supposed to meet with the board of directors in the institute of directors but he did not show up at time, Assam started to call him in his house, Marwan told him that he did not feel that he wanted to attend but Assam convinced him with the importance of this meeting and so Marwan in the end said he was coming after half an hour so he could wear his clothes.
They waited to see him in the balcony where they saw him coming out and walking in unusual way in his balcony; he looked down the building then behind him, then he returned inside, Assam had to call again and again, and every time Marwan would answer that he was coming down.

I am coming down, I am coming down

In The last phone call between Assam and Marwan, which can be considered the last phone call Marwan made; Marwan screamed in Assam telling him that he would not come.

Listen Assam, I am not coming...I am not coming

And surely he wasn’t coming but he was looking behind him in the balcony then in front of him, took one step and then jumped from the balcony.
This was not Assam Shawaky’ statement alone, in fact the other three said the same story. When he fall down, they immediately hurried to him, Assam was the first to reach him, he checked from pulse and found out that he was alive then but he died while waiting for an ambulance.The statement of Shawaky and the other 4 prove that he was not pushed or thrown from the balcony, on the contrary to what his family which was not there is saying and to the Bulgarian witness is saying . What they are saying and they did not change against letter in it till means one thing that Marwan committed suicide.
This is why Mona and her sons are so pissed off from Azza and her husband; they could not attack the foreigners but started to attack Azza and her husband accusing them of very dangerous charges:
1- They used to steal from her husband for years but her husband busted them in the end and so he wanted to call of his partnership with Assam
2- They sold her husband secrets including the medical ones to his enemies “Israelis according to them” in order to get rid from Marwan.
In other words they are accusing them as accomplices in the murder. It is very dangerous accusation without evidence as it seems because Scotland Yard trusted Assam. Mona had no other place except Egypt to attack them in, she accused directly of plotting and stealing her late husband in Al Ahram Weekly interview. The Shawakys had to answer back in the only available way, they sued her in front of the Egyptian courts for defame. The case is still in the Egyptian court, it was adjourned for several times by the way.
To tell you the truth ,after 20 years including leaving Egypt and working with Marwan in London in his risky business ,Azza and her husband must be trusted by Marwan so much. Still may be they took money from behind his back but I do not know when Mona says that her husband wanted to call off the partnership with Assam ,you may think that Assam owns a considerable amount of shares compared to Marwan in the Chemicals factory but Marwan already owned 90% of the Shares.
May be again Azza and her hubby stole from behind Marwan’s back, it happens every where but may be they are not involved in his death from near or far .The danger in that accusation is not only plotting but plotting with the enemy of the State , the Israeli Mossad , in other words she is accusing them of treason.
Azza and her husband refused to be the scapegoat in this enigmatic crime and they have the right to do so if they are innocent.
I do not know Azza from near or far but to stab a person in the back after more than 20 years working together in abroad is hard but still this is another world we are speaking about.

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*Essam Shawaky and other Marwan partners had meeting in the same time.

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