A authorized court docket docket in Giza sentenced Ramadan Sobhi, a 28-year-old worldwide soccer participant, on Tuesday, 30 December, to a minimum of one yr in jail with arduous labor, discovering him accountable of forging official paperwork at a tourism and motels institute inside the Abu al-Nomros district.
The case rose from an incident in May 2025, when an individual was caught taking an examination on Sobhi’s behalf. All through questioning, the suspect admitted that he had obtained value from the participant to take a seat down the examine in his place.
The second defendant, accused of taking the examination in Sobhi’s place, obtained the an identical sentence as Sohbi. The court docket docket acquitted the third defendant, who’s a security guard believed to have been involved inside the case, and the fourth defendant, who stays at big and was involved in coping with the registration and shopping for the paperwork used to commit the forgery, obtained a 10-year jail sentence.
Sobhy was arrested in July of this yr upon coming back from Turkey, the place his membership, Pyramids Soccer Membership (FC), had completed a pre-season camp. The Giza Felony Courtroom, Circuit 30, first heard the case on 25 October, 2025, after the South Giza Prosecution referred him and three others to trial over alleged forgery. Sobhi was initially launched on bail set at EGP 100,000 (USD 2,099).
Ahead of the second session on Tuesday, the court docket docket ordered Sobhi to look inside the defendants’ dock, following customary procedures for the alternative accused. The judges reviewed the proof, heard safety arguments, and formally be taught the prices to the defendants, all of whom denied the accusations.
Sobhi began his expert occupation with Al-Ahly FC sooner than shifting to England in 2016, the place he had stints with Stoke Metropolis and Huddersfield Metropolis. In 2020, he returned to Egypt, turning into a member of Pyramids FC, the place he grew to turn out to be a central decide inside the membership, serving to the crew seize its first Confederation of African Soccer (CAF) Champions League title this yr.
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