State Security Police General Mortada Ibrahim—the man who was in charge of wiretapping and surveillance during General Habib el-Adly‘s reign, and who remained in service after the revolution—has submitted his resignation yesterday from his post as the Interior Minister General Mansour el-Eissawi’s 1st Assistant for Research and Planning.

Alongside General Mortada, two other minister assistants have also resigned: General Gihad Youssef, and General Hassan Abdel Hamid.

Some reports have spoken about their “impeachment” rather than “resignation.” What’s clear in any case that those power-hungry jackboots who have served Mubarak’s regime and his thug Adly would not have left their posts that easily. Instead they are currently facing the heat for their involvement in corruption, and are being investigated by the Illicit Gains Authority.

General Youssef and General Abdel Hamid will be the subject of future postings on the Piggipedia, especially General Youssef, Adly’s assistant for financial affairs.

This man remains a big question mark for his central role in the police corruption machine. After a long career in SS, General Youssef developed close connections to Adly, who assigned him the post of the Interior Minister’s 1st Assistant for Financial Affairs. General Youssef is reportedly 68 years old, in other words he passed his retirement age, and was one of those “lucky ones” to receive Adly’s annual decree of extension of service. General Youssef ran five departments in the interior ministry: the General Administration of Financial Research and Projects, General Administration of Police Supplies, General Administration of Ammunition and Weaponry, General Department of the Ministry’s Services, and the Central Administration for Accountancy and Budget. He was also a member of the board of directors of several companies in the housing and oil sectors.

General Youssef faces accusations he personally supervised Adly’s investments in the stock market and purchases of villas and palaces.

Al-Masry Al-Youm neither specified which agencies and directorates those brigadiers were transferred to nor did it release the names of the officers in the report, which also said that 23 SS generals had their service terminated.

Earlier Shrouk had quoted a “senior security source” saying a “big number of State Security Police officers” will be part of the newly formed National Security Agency.

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Already among the infamous SS names we know are part of the new interior ministry leadership is General Mortada Ibrahim, who should be thrown in jail for leading the division in charge of surveillance, phone bugging and wiretapping, but instead he’s been rewarded the post of the Interior Minister’s Assistant for Research and Planning.

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And moreover, it seems General Hisham Abdel Fattah Abu Gheida, will not face trial for his involvement in torture and corruption. The general has been awarded a new post as the Interior Minister’s Assistant for Guards and Security Division.

And the musical chairs game continues.

One of the sets of photos I found on the Nasr City SS DVDs, was that of General Mortada Ibrahim. The general hails from a powerful Upper Egyptian family, accused by some of using the general’s influence to grab more land.

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General Ibrahim was promoted in 2004 to become the Interior Minister’s Assistant, heading إدارة المساعدات الفنية the “Technical Assistance Department.” This department is in charge of surveillance, phone tapping of citizens, dissidents and government officials alike. The infamous reputation of this department reached the extent that the state-run Akhbar el-Youm reported (after the revolution of course) a conversation between General Ibrahim and another senior police official, whereby General Ibrahim said: “I listen to your breathing, even when I’m asleep.”

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Instead of putting him on trial for running this fearsome apparatus that invaded the private lives of millions of Egyptian citizens a day, General Ibrahim has been rewarded by Essam Sharaf’s cabinet a new post in the “revolutionary government” as the Interior Minister’s Assistant for Research and Planning.

The police musical chairs little game continues.