The police have seized 11.5 tonnes of expired frozen fish in New Damietta on Tuesday, in a storage refrigerator owned by a Nour Party leader.
A complaint was filed about the incident and the prosecution has taken over the investigation.
The expiry date was set at 6 months after the date of production (June 2014).
According to investigators, the owner of the refrigerator was a Nour Party candidate in the previous parliamentary elections.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm