he arranged for his protege, sameh fahmy to become egypt's petroleum minister. >> the presence of sameh fahmy as minister defines a new era of the energy sector in egypt where the energy resources is managed by the intelligence of egypt. >> in a confidential document obtained by al jazeera the egyptian government's investment authority promised to grant an exclusive license to sell egypt's gas to a new company set up by salem p called emg, or "east mediterranean gas." sameh fahmy was the petroleum minister at the time. salem now had his sights on a bigger and more controversial economic prize - the building of an undersea pipeline between al-arish and ashkelon with a single objective - to pump cheap egyptian gas into israel. >> that was when the basic principle was established that egypt would sell the gas to emg; emg would sell the gas on to the israelis. >> this agreement didn't take the approval of the parliament at that time and instead they have allocated the gas directly to a company that has been established by the hussein salem and his former intelligence people as well like him