Actor Ahmed Flox gets suspended 6-month term for hashish
Matrouh security officers caught Egyptian actor Ahmed Flox with a hashish cigarette while enforcing another sentence, and he admitted possession for consumption. The Matrouh Criminal Court of Appeal upheld six months' imprisonment with suspension plus a 10,000-pound fine.
🇪🇬 Matrouh, Matrouh Governorate · Egypt
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Arrested
1
Prison
6 months, suspended
Fine
EGP 10,000
Agencies
Matrouh Security Directorate, Matrouh Criminal Court of Appeal
Egyptian actor Ahmed Flox was linked in recent years to two criminal cases, one
alleging insult, defamation and harassment of basketball player Yasmin Ezzat and
the other alleging drug possession for consumption.[1]In November 2024, he
faced a separate case of possessing hashish for consumption after a cigarette
containing the drug was found in his possession.[1]He was caught while
authorities were carrying out procedures to enforce the prison sentence issued
in the other case, and the drug-possession incident was then sent to trial on a
charge of possessing drugs for consumption.[1]
The case was registered as No. 13886 of 2023 with the Matrouh police station
felonies, after the Matrouh security directorate received a report that Flox had
been caught while wanted in another case with hashish for consumption in his
possession.[2]A security force went to where he was staying inside a tourist
village and, on catching him as a precaution, found a cigarette box holding
several cigarettes, one of which contained hashish.[2]He admitted that he
possessed it for consumption, a report of the incident was filed, and the
prosecution referred him to court.[3]
The Matrouh Criminal Court of Appeal upheld the judgment against Flox of six
months’ imprisonment with suspension of execution and a fine of 10,000 Egyptian
pounds in the hashish-possession case.[2]
Case data
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Arrested
1
Prison
6 months, suspended
Fine
EGP 10,000
Agencies
Matrouh Security Directorate; Matrouh Criminal Court of Appeal
No weight for the hashish was published; only one cigarette containing the drug was described, so no cannabis quantity can be recorded.
The exact day of the initial seizure was not published beyond November 2024; 24 November 2024 is the publication date of the contemporary appeal reports and is used as the incident date for the appeal ruling.
The two-year prison term and 200,000-pound fine in the separate defamation case are not cannabis figures and are left out of the structured data.
The Alexandria Criminal Court sentenced a worker to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and a EGP 50,000 fine for hashish trafficking. Officers had arrested him in First Ameriya with 400 hashish slabs weighing about 18 kilograms.
The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced a housewife and an unemployed man to 10 years of aggravated imprisonment for possessing hashish and unlicensed weapons with intent to traffic in Helwan. Police arrested the pair after finding 70 grams of hashish, a shotgun, ammunition, a bladed weapon and cash.
Cairo Criminal Court acquitted a 38-year-old man at the retrial of proceedings against his in-absentia sentence of 15 years' aggravated imprisonment and a 50,000-pound fine over eight pieces of hashish weighing 164 grams found in frozen meat at Cairo airport. Investigators said he hid the drugs in his neighbour's bag without her knowledge to smuggle them to an Arab country.
The Ninth Circuit of the Asyut Criminal Court sentenced three defendants from Dronka village to six years of rigorous imprisonment each for forming and running a narcotics trafficking gang. In January 2026 arrests in Dronka, police seized 21 pieces of hashish weighing 19.30 grams from one defendant's home alongside methamphetamine, heroin and tramadol held across the group.