Ruqaya Sadat, the daughter of the late Egyptian president, told Al-Arabiya.net that she did not know anything about that, wondering how her father’s passport reached the auction hall and sold it at a public auction.
An American auction house called “Heritage” surprised its pioneers by offering the diplomatic passport of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, for sale at a public auction.
The incident sparked widespread controversy and raised questions about how Sadat’s passport was issued abroad, and who was behind supplying and selling it to the auction hall.
According to the auction house’s data, the passport is diplomatically classified and bears No. 1 and was issued on March 19, 1974, and remained valid until March 18, 1981.
She explained that Sadat’s passport included his trip to the United States in 1978, where he met former US President Jimmy Carter, and signed the Camp David Agreement with the Prime Minister of Israel, stressing that the passport had slight wear and tear from frequent use.
Sadat’s passport consisted of 48 pages, and was printed in both Arabic and French, while the auction house said that it was sold for a large value of $47,000.
For her part, Ruqaya Sadat, the daughter of the late Egyptian president, told Al-Arabiya.net that she did not know anything about that, wondering how her father’s passport reached the auction hall and sold it at a public auction.
She added that she would demand an investigation into the matter and find out who took out the passport, who sold it to the auction hall, who bought it, and all the participants in this incident.
