The former camp is currently closer to the president's ear having managed to get Major Ahmed Shaaban of Military Intelligence into the number two spot in the office of the presidency underneath El Sisi's chief advisor Major General Abbas Kamel...
The most recent apparent example is the alleged leaked conversation in February in which the then Defence Minister is heard talking with Major General Abbas Kamel his chief of staff funnelling gulf aid into private accounts operated by the armed forces abroad in the Gulf and outside the purview of the Central Bank of Egypt...
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