Abdel Majid Abdel Hamid reported that the arrest of Ahmed Haroun, head of the delegated National Congress Party, was ordered by a senior sovereign figure. Sources close to the case said that figure followed the arrangements up to the moment Haroun was arrested and placed in detention by a security agency, which informed him of the decision to hold him. According to the account, the arrest followed three tracks, the first of them linked to a body referred to as Sudafax.