NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man has been indicted on charges he acted as an unregistered agent of Egypt's government, including by tracking opponents of the country's president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.
According to a two-count indictment, Pierre Girgis, 39, a dual Egyptian-U.S. citizen living in Manhattan, operated between 2014 and April 2019 at the "direction and control" of multiple Egyptian government employees to advance the government's interests in the United States.
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