Israeli weapons smugglers to go on trial

The South Sinai Criminal Court is to try an Israeli and a Ukrainian national for smuggling weapons from Israel via the Taba border crossing to Sharm Al-Sheikh. The court is to be headed under justice Mokhtar Madi and counselors Ibrahim Amin andWael Abd Al-Lah.   Last October, police officer Ahmed Al-Shishtawy arrested Israeli-Arab Maaz Zhalki who crossed the border with a cross-shaped wooden box containing a weapon and 59 bullets. He confessed that the second defendant, an Israeli-Arab fugitive named Mamoun Abd Al-Fattah asked him to deliver the box to the Ukrainian, Edward Chicos who works in Sharm Al-Sheikh. Investigations showed that the second defendant used to deliver the weapons through the Taba border as an employee for the first defendant in his company in Sharm Al-Sheikh.   In the last trial the general attorney requested the highest punishment as the weapon was smuggled for illegal use. The defendant's lawyer Ehab Ramzy will reportedly cite cancellation of the emergency law in 2012.