Sisi leaked recordings authentic, says new evidence

Evidence has emerged verifying the authenticity of leaked recordings of conversations between Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and his inner circle of army generals.

The conversations, leaked over a period of months, include insults aimed at the regime’s Gulf patrons, examples of the courts and media being manipulated and admissions that billions of dollars have been stashed in special military accounts.

In three reports submitted to the British police, a respected audio forensics firm has found “moderately strong” evidence to authenticate Sisi’s voice on two of the recordings and the voice of a top general, Mamdouh Shaheen, on another.

The firm, J. P. French Associates, has said that there are “no indications” that the recordings were fabricated by merging together unrelated statements out of context.

The group that commissioned the reports are lawyers representing the political party of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi. Sisi removed Morsi in a military takeover in 2013.

The lawyers are allegedly seeking to use the recordings as evidence in a criminal case in Britain charging the leaders responsible for the military takeover with torture and other human rights violations.