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Egypt Tycoon Is Charged In Killing Of Pop Diva - NYTimes.com

Egypt Tycoon Is Charged In Killing Of Pop Diva

By MONA EL-NAGGAR

Published: September 2, 2008

CAIRO — A wealthy Egyptian businessman and lawmaker was charged
Tuesday with paying $2 million for the contract killing of a well-known
Lebanese pop star who was found dead in her apartment in Dubai, United
Arab Emirates, in July.

The arrest capped weeks of speculation, in Egypt
and in Dubai, that the politically powerful Egyptian had ordered the
killing of the singer, Suzanne Tamim, 30. But the arrest of the tycoon,
Hisham Talaat Moustafa, one of the nation’s largest real estate
developers and a member of President Hosni Mubarak’s governing National Democratic Party, still caused a stir here.

Mr.
Moustafa, 49, whose net worth was estimated at more than $800 million
in 2007, was charged with hiring a former police officer, Mohsen
al-Sukary, to kill Ms. Tamim in what authorities said was an act of
revenge.

Mr. Moustafa had no immediate comment.

The
authorities did not elaborate on the source of his anger. But news
media have reported that he was infuriated with Ms. Tamim after a
failed love affair. When her body was found on July 28, she had been
stabbed and her throat had been slit.

Mr. Sukary, the former
police officer, was arrested shortly after the killing. On Tuesday,
Egypt’s public prosecutor, Gen. Abdul Meguid Mahmoud, said that Mr.
Moustafa “took part through incitement, agreement and assistance with
the first defendant in killing the victim in revenge.”

The case
drew attention because it involved a Lebanese diva, the rich emirate of
Dubai and rumors that a politically connected Egyptian was involved. It
was front-page news everywhere in the region except Egypt, where
newspapers were prohibited from reporting on the case.

As rumors
spread across Egypt that Mr. Moustafa was the connected businessman,
and as shares in his company dropped on the Egyptian stock exchange, he
called for legislation to make it a crime to spread rumors.

“It
is clear that the authorities in Dubai have some kind of strong
evidence against Hisham Talaat Moustafa, and that’s why the authorities
here had to arrest him and investigate,” said Salama Ahmed Salama, a
columnist with Egypt’s state-owned newspaper Al Ahram. “Otherwise, the
Egyptian authorities wouldn’t have lifted his immunity and arrested
him.” Mr. Moustafa was the chairman of Talaat Moustafa Group, which
builds hotels and housing, and a member of Parliament’s Shura Council,
which is largely advisory. He has been replaced by his brother as
chairman and stripped of his legislative immunity.