Report: Chief executive of one of Egypt's biggest companies banned from leaving country


Egypt bars OCI chief from leaving country: state media Add to Collection (Create New) | Print Download: Plain Text XML All CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have barred the chief executive of Orascom Construction Industries, one of the country's biggest companies, from leaving the country as part of an investigation into tax evasion, state media said on Sunday.

The public prosecutor ordered that OCI CEO Nassef Sawiris and his father Onsi Sawiris be barred from travel, the state news agency MENA said.

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