Crisis in Tahrir

Egypt’s Hany Louka of Siemens found murdered

| 8 February 2012 | Comments (1)

Hany Louka

CAIRO: Egyptian security forces said they found the body of Hany Louka, the executive financial manager of Siemens in Egypt on Tuesday morning after he went missing for four days.

The body was found, mutilated and burned along with his car in October 6 City, outside of Cairo.

Police said a Jordanian woman and an Egyptian pharmacist are behind the murder.

The two convinced Louka to come to October 6 City in an attempt to rob him and when they failed, they killed him, cut of his hands and feet and burned the body and dumped it in the desert, police reported.

Louka, 45, went missing after he drove his wife to the airport last week, and his family had notified the police, who conducted an investigation and search until the body was found on Tuesday.

The head of the criminal investigation unit, General Mahmoud Farouq, said the two suspects were arrested after the car and the body were found. An autopsy is under way to investigate the cause of death, while the prosecution questions the suspects.

So far the investigation found that the victim met the two suspects about one year ago in a hotel in Cairo and they tried to borrow money from him, but when he refused, they planned to rob him.

Instead, they murdered him.

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  • Leannegraves

    There are so many factors in this article that just do not add up. “The two convinced Louka to come to October 6 City in an attempt to rob
    him and when they failed, they killed him, cut of his hands and feet and
    burned the body and dumped it in the desert, police reported.” With the position that Louka had, which implies some sort of intelligence and given the spike in crime over the past 1.5 weeks (including reported ransom kidnappings throughout Cairo), why would Louka voluntarily go from the airport – on the outskirts of Heliopolis – to the 6th of October, a destination not even close.

    Second, the body was “found mutilated and burned along with his car.” How did the police confirm it was Louka’s body as opposed to another body? If he was mutilated and burned, that eliminates fingerprints. Furthermore, does Egypt have the technology to compare dental records? This article came out the following day. So first the investigators would need to locate Louka’s dentist and then obtain his file. The process of comparing would take a long time. In addition, with everything else happening here – are the police equipped to undertake such a huge investigation? If so, wouldn’t it take longer than just a few hours to determine this?

    Finally, how was it that an Egyptian man and a Jordanian woman were responsible for this crime?

    This story is confusing and leaves so many unanswered questions. If you don’t have the ability to fill in the blanks, then it’s usually best not to report things until you get those answers (ie just saying that a body was found in the 6th of October at a car registered to Hany Louka. The Siemens exec was reported missing four days prior, but authorities have not made a positive ID on the body at this time).