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CAIRO – Egypt’s state-run MENA news agency says the agriculture minister has been detained shortly after tendering his resignation amid a corruption investigation.
Monday’s detention of Salah el-Din Helal comes after Egypt’s prosecution issued a gag order last week on a corruption investigation into the allocation of state land which implicated a number of senior agriculture ministry officials.
MENA says he resigned on orders from President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi.