The Egyptian Public Prosecution has referred the media figure Sara Khalifa and 28 defendants to the Criminal Court to punish them for the charges attributed to them of forming an organized criminal gang specialized in bringing materials used for manufacturing narcotic substances, with the intent of producing them for trafficking, and possessing firearms and ammunition without a license.

It issued a number of urgent decisions that included listing the defendants' assets, revealing the secrecy of their bank accounts, freezing their funds, placing the two fugitive defendants on travel ban and arrival watch lists, and continuing the detention of the remaining defendants.

The Public Prosecution's decision was based on the testimonies of twenty witnesses, as well as technical and digital evidence, which included conversations, images, and video clips documenting the defendants' criminal activity.

The investigations revealed that the defendants formed a criminal organization led by some of them, to manufacture synthetic narcotic substances for the purpose of trafficking, by importing the materials used in manufacturing from abroad. Their roles were distributed over stages, with some bringing the raw materials, others manufacturing them, while the remaining ones promoted them. The defendants used one of the residential properties as a base for storing and manufacturing these materials, and the total amount of synthetic narcotic substances and raw materials involved in their manufacture seized exceeded 750 kilograms.