„Security forces managed to arrest Hisham Kandil, former prime minister, in carrying out a court order issued against him. He was caught in a mountain area with smugglers trying to flee to Sudan,“ Egypt‘s interior ministry said in a statement.

Kandil was appointed in July 2012 by Mursi after he won Egypt‘s first truly democratic elections that followed the fall of autocratic President Hosni Mubarak in 2011.