Authorities in Egypt have frozen the assets of former President Hosni Mubarak and his family, state-run media reported Monday.
Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud requested the action, according to the state-run EgyNews website.
Along with Mubarak’s assets, those belonging to his wife, Suzanne, were also frozen, along with the assets of the former president’s eldest son, Alaa, and younger son, Gamal, and both of the sons’ wives, according to the report.
After 30 years, Mubarak stepped down as Egypt’s president February 11 following 18 days of unrest.
The same day, Switzerland’s government moved to freeze any assets in the country’s banks that might belong to Mubarak or his family. “The (government) intends in doing so to avoid any risk of embezzlement of Egyptian state property,” Swiss officials said in a statement at the time.
In addition, the prosecutor has requested an investigation into Mubarak’s assets, prompted by citizen complaints, Egyptian state television reported.
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i dont think they have tomchei shabbos in egypt. so how is he going to afford the cost of living?
TELL him to stop off in iran and take their khomeini with him, and let them both live out their lives together in some cave.
#2 you obviously do not know a lot about Mubarak and khamenei since they both openly hated each other.
he is not as bad as khomeni they cant freeze all his money he earned some of it by leading his country for 30 yrs
The real news (i.e., man bites dog) in this article is not that a dictator might have looted his country’s treasury, or that a revolutionary government wants to freeze the assets of the dictator it overthrew. No, the real news in this story is: Hosni Mubarak’s wife’s name is Suzanne. No wonder some Arabs think he was a a tool of the US. Did she make him bacon and eggs for breakfast?
She was born in Egypt in 1941 when it was under British rule, and she is muslim, what a pointless statement regarding her name.