Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday asked judges to work as part of a Cairo-based committee seeking to target the sources of terror financing.
The Egyptian Authorities have been for years working on confronting networks financing extremist groups, mainly the Muslim Brotherhood, which is considered a terrorist organization.
The committee is tasked with enforcing the provisions of sentences related to funding terrorist groups.
The anti-terror law adopted in 2015 calls for harsh sentences on financing terrorist groups.
Militants have launched an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula after the military overthrew Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated president, in 2013.
Several extremist groups operate in the Sinai, including Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, which pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2014 and named itself ISIS-Sinai Province.
In a related development, the Cairo Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced a former economic adviser to Morsi along with 13 other people to life in prison for belonging to an illegal group.
Abdullah Shehata and the 13 others sentenced to life terms were accused of weapons possession, belonging to an illegal group and "violating citizens' freedoms".
The prosecution accused them of creating "special cells" to receive training in how to make sound bombs.
