The Emirati newspaper Al-Khaleej said on Thursday that ties between the two sides have worsened, stirring a flurry of diplomacy and other activity as Cairo tries to limit the fallout.
The Egyptian government did not make any comment on the report but Mahmoud Ghozlan, a spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood, said it has “no basis whatsoever” and is part of an “unfair campaign” against Egyptians.
It came after Emirati media reported that UAE security forces had arrested eleven Egyptians, including three doctors, who allegedly held “secret meetings” across the country and “recruited Egyptian expats in the UAE to join their ranks.”
Emirati media also said that the Egyptians, who are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, had gathered secret defense information on the UAE and collected “large amounts of money which they sent illegally to the mother organization in Egypt.”
Ghozlan accused individuals in the UAE of a “conspiracy” to back the members of the former Egypt’s government led by ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak.
He said that the chief of police in Dubai, one of the Brotherhood’s critics, and Ahmed Shafiq, a former Egyptian prime minister and presidential candidate who is now living in the UAE, were involved in the conspiracy against the government of President Mohamed Morsi.
An Egyptian delegation including the intelligence chief and Morsi’s adviser for foreign affairs and international cooperation, Essam el-Haddad, flew to the UEA this week to discuss about the detention of the Egyptians.
The delegation met with UAE Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum on Wednesday.
Haddad carried a letter from the Egyptian president to UAE President Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan about “bilateral relations between the two countries.”
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