Friday, 13 May 2011
Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak and his wife Suzanne, pictured here in 2006. (File photo)
Egypt’s anti-graft agency ordered the detention of Suzanne Thabet, the wife of former president Hosni Mubarak, for 15 days pending investigation.
She would be taken to a Cairo prison, security and judicial sources said.
Egypt’s Illicit Gains Authority (IGA) had questioned the former president and his wife for the first time on Thursday, over allegations they enriched themselves illegally, the MENA state news agency reported.
The new development means that the former president, the former First Lady, and two of their sons are now being held in custody—surely an unprecedented situation in the Arab world.
She would be taken to a Cairo prison, security and judicial sources said.
Egypt’s Illicit Gains Authority (IGA) had questioned the former president and his wife for the first time on Thursday, over allegations they enriched themselves illegally, the MENA state news agency reported.
The new development means that the former president, the former First Lady, and two of their sons are now being held in custody—surely an unprecedented situation in the Arab world.
An investigation team went to the Sinai resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh where Mr. Mubarak and his wife Suzanne are staying, the agency said, quoting Assem el-Gohari, a senior justice ministry official.
“A team of investigators from the illicit gains department headed by Khaled Selim is currently questioning the former president and his wife” in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, MENA reported.
It was the first time the Mubaraks have been questioned by this branch of the justice ministry, which is looking into “charges that they used their position to acquire wealth illegally,” the office said.
Mr. Mubarak, who is under arrest in a Sharm el-Sheikh hospital, has already been interrogated by the state prosecutor’s office over several charges including ordering the shooting of anti-regime protesters.
He was first detained on April 13 and his detention extended twice, most recently on Tuesday.
Former parliamentarian Mostafa Bakri had submitted notification to the attorney general that Mr. Mubarak’s family had 27 different bank accounts, including 10 for his son Mr. Alaa, eight for his other son Mr. Gamal, and six for his wife Suzanne.
Meanwhile, prosecutors froze accounts of Mrs. Mubarak’s brother Mounir Thabet and banned him from travel, as he is being investigated in two cases of profiteering and seizing public funds.
Egypt’s anti-graft agency is also investigating the wealth of other former officials as well, including Chief of Presidential Staff Zakaria Azmi, former Parliament Speaker Fathi Sorour, former Shura Council Speaker Safwat al-Sherif, and Mr. Mubarak’s relatives Magdi Rasekh and Mahmoud al-Gammal.
Mr. Mubarak’s two sons Mr. Alaa and Mr. Gamal, along with dozens of officials and businessmen associated with the former regime, are being detained in Cairo's notorious Tora Prison that housed political dissidents during the Mubarak era. The former president will be reportedly incarcerated there once he’s fit to travel to Cairo.
(Mustapha Ajbaili, an editor at Al Arabiya can be reached at: Mustapha.ajbaili@mbc.net.)
“A team of investigators from the illicit gains department headed by Khaled Selim is currently questioning the former president and his wife” in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, MENA reported.
It was the first time the Mubaraks have been questioned by this branch of the justice ministry, which is looking into “charges that they used their position to acquire wealth illegally,” the office said.
Mr. Mubarak, who is under arrest in a Sharm el-Sheikh hospital, has already been interrogated by the state prosecutor’s office over several charges including ordering the shooting of anti-regime protesters.
He was first detained on April 13 and his detention extended twice, most recently on Tuesday.
Former parliamentarian Mostafa Bakri had submitted notification to the attorney general that Mr. Mubarak’s family had 27 different bank accounts, including 10 for his son Mr. Alaa, eight for his other son Mr. Gamal, and six for his wife Suzanne.
Meanwhile, prosecutors froze accounts of Mrs. Mubarak’s brother Mounir Thabet and banned him from travel, as he is being investigated in two cases of profiteering and seizing public funds.
Egypt’s anti-graft agency is also investigating the wealth of other former officials as well, including Chief of Presidential Staff Zakaria Azmi, former Parliament Speaker Fathi Sorour, former Shura Council Speaker Safwat al-Sherif, and Mr. Mubarak’s relatives Magdi Rasekh and Mahmoud al-Gammal.
Mr. Mubarak’s two sons Mr. Alaa and Mr. Gamal, along with dozens of officials and businessmen associated with the former regime, are being detained in Cairo's notorious Tora Prison that housed political dissidents during the Mubarak era. The former president will be reportedly incarcerated there once he’s fit to travel to Cairo.
(Mustapha Ajbaili, an editor at Al Arabiya can be reached at: Mustapha.ajbaili@mbc.net.)
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