Complicit Dossier

State-owned and co-opted commercial entities · Foreign state-owned holding company (Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade) · Egypt

Holding Company for Food Industries (Egypt)

الشركة القابضة للصناعات الغذائية

  • Commercial or professional counterparty
  • Grade B: CorroboratedStrongest record: corroborated
  • 2 documented ties · 3 steps from the SAF

Also recorded as: HCFI

Commercial counterparty of a SAF-owned company; ordinary food trade.

Its chairman, Maj. Gen. Ahmed Hassanein, said on 4 June 2021 that the holding company owns 25% of the Egyptian-Sudanese Company for Development and Multiple Investments, that 'cooperation with the Sudanese Etegahat company goes back to 2014, with the first contract to supply 800,000 Sudanese head' of livestock, and that Etegahat had contracted with the Ministry of Supply to develop and run 25 of the holding company's meat outlets under a new brand. Etegahat (Multiple Directions) is a company of Sudan's Defense Industries System; the Sudanese delegation was led by the DIS deputy head.

Response

No response is recorded. Named parties have not yet been asked for comment.

Records

1

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Grade B: Corroborated

25% shareholder of the Egyptian-Sudanese Company; long-standing buyer from Etegahat

2014 - present

Its chairman, Maj. Gen. Ahmed Hassanein, said on 4 June 2021 that the holding company owns 25% of the Egyptian-Sudanese Company for Development and Multiple Investments, that 'cooperation with the Sudanese Etegahat company goes back to 2014, with the first contract to supply 800,000 Sudanese head' of livestock, and that Etegahat had contracted with the Ministry of Supply to develop and run 25 of the holding company's meat outlets under a new brand. Etegahat (Multiple Directions) is a company of Sudan's Defense Industries System; the Sudanese delegation was led by the DIS deputy head.

Response
No response sought by this desk; none found in the sources read.
›Research notes

Official statement relayed by three outlets. Trade is in food and livestock.

1 more record below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see it.

Relationships

3

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Ownership and control · 2

2 more relationships below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see them.

Money · 1

1 more relationship below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see it.

Dated events

1
  1. Egypt's Ministry of Supply states the shareholding of the Egyptian-Sudanese Company: Holding Company for Food Industries 25%, National Service Projects Organization 25%, South Valley 10%, Sudan's Etegahat (DIS) 40%. almalnews.com

    Grade B: Corroborated

1 more event below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see it.

Geography

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Based in
Egypt

Position in the network

Derived by analysing the documented relationships. Nothing in this section is a finding.

Connected to the SAF through official or corroborated records.

›Possible links to investigate · 3
  • National Service Projects Organization (NSPO), Egypt hypothesis

    No direct tie is documented. Basis: shared intermediary; named in the other actor's record; cited in the same source (via Egyptian-Sudanese Company for Development and Multiple Investments (ESC)).

  • Defense Industries System (DIS) hypothesis

    No direct tie is documented. Basis: shared intermediary; named in the other actor's record (via Etegahat / Multiple Directions Company, Egyptian-Sudanese Company for Development and Multiple Investments (ESC)).

  • South Valley Development Company (Egypt) hypothesis

    No direct tie is documented. Basis: shared intermediary; cited in the same source (via Egyptian-Sudanese Company for Development and Multiple Investments (ESC)).