CAIRO, Jan 4 (Aswat Masriya) – A committee established to assess the funds of the banned Muslim Brotherhood ordered the confiscation of the assets of 112 persons, including four persons not affiliated with the Brotherhood.

An urgent matters court ordered the confiscation of the Muslim Brotherhood’s capital and dissolving any organisations affiliated with it in September 2013, establishing the said committee to oversee the ruling's implementation.

An official at the committee told Aswat Masriya on Sunday that the decision was issued a week ago.

The list includes members of secular youth movements who have been vocal opponents of the Brotherhood including the Revolutionary Socialists' Haitham Mohammadein and Hisham Abdel Rasool as well as the April 6 Youth Movement's Amr Ali. 

Mohamed Aboul Fottouh, the committee's secretary general, said on Sunday that regulators' official reports suggest that the aforementioned are active members of the pro-Mohamed Mursi Anti-Coup Alliance.

The Anti-Coup Alliance, also known as the National Coalition for Supporting Legitimacy, was formed in late June 2013 to voice its support for Mursi's "legitimate" presidency. It was made up of a group of Islamist political parties, headed by the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party.

The Freedom and Justice Party was banned by a court order last August. 

Most persons whose assets have been seized by the committee are members of the alliance.

Brotherhood affiliates whose assets were confiscated as per last week's decision include Cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi and ousted President Mohamed Mursi's son Ahmed.

The committee established to assess the funds of the Brotherhood, as per the September court ruling, has confiscated the assets of hundreds of the group's members. It has also seized the organisation's headquarters nationwide, as well as the headquarters of its Freedom and Justice Party.

Egypt's administrative court has revoked decisions issued by the committee more than once, citing the criminal court's exclusive jurisdiction over assets' seizure, and consequently the committee's lack of jurisdiction.

On December 16, a court overturned the committee's decision to seize the assets of 17 Brotherhood leaders.

Egypt listed the Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation in December 2013 and insists it is behind the stringent wave of militancy which has targeted security personnel since the ouster of former Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. The Brotherhood continuously denies the accusations, distancing itself from one militant attack after the other.