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CAIRO, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian judicial committee decided to seize the funds of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and over 200 other members of his now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group due to a verdict designating them as "terror entities," state-run Al-Ahram news website reported Sunday.
The verdict against Morsi is related to a case known as "espionage with Hamas" where the former president is charged with leaking classified information to the Gaza-ruling Palestinian movement, yet the verdict does not extend to his family members, Al-Ahram quoted an unnamed judicial source as saying.
Other leading Brotherhood members are included in the list of fund seizure issued by the judicial panel tasked with managing the Brotherhood funds, including the group's top chief Mohamed Badie, his two deputies Khairat al-Shater and Mahmoud Ezzat, former parliament speaker Mohamed Saad al-Katatni and others.
Egypt has been launching a massive crackdown on the Brotherhood group since Morsi was removed by the military in July 2013 after mass protests against his one-year rule.
A later dispersal of pro-Morsi sit-ins in the capital and nearby Giza left about 1,000 killed and thousands more arrested and facing mass trials.
Since then, growing anti-government terror attacks left hundreds of police and military men killed, with most of them claimed by a Sinai-based militant group loyal to the regional Islamic State (IS) group.
The judicial panel in charge of the group's money has previously seized funds of several Brotherhood-run businesses including supermarkets and private schools.
