Nesreen Tafesh legal saga: resolving a 4 million pound dispute with a sack of cash

 Nesreen Tafesh was present in the appeal session against her three-year sentence for a faulty check at Cairo’s South Giza Court yesterday, Wednesday, May 8, 2024.

In order to settle the dispute, the artist appeared in court armed with a sack carrying four million pounds.

On January 30, 2023, Mrs. Nashwa Safaa El-Din submitted a check to Nesreen Tafesh in settlement of the matter, which was 4 million Egyptian pounds.

Following Nesreen  Tafesh’s payment, plaintiff Nashwa Safaa said, “I regret that I reconciled, because the amount now is not worth anything.” Her own lawyer joined Safaa.

NesreenTafesh’s three-year jail sentence came to an end when she and Nashwa Safaa reconciled during the appeal process.

Nesreen Tafesh, an artist, had her appeal against her three-year jail sentence rejected by the October Misdemeanor Court of the South Giza Court of First Instance, 16th Circuit, in Case No. 1636 of 2023. The court had earlier upheld the first-instance verdict.

The Public Prosecution assigned Nesreen Tafesh to the Sheikh Zayed District Office on January 30, 2023, for issuing a check in bad faith to Nashwa Safaa El-Din for 4 million pounds.