Egypt requests freeze on Mubarak assets abroad
Cairo: Egypt’s prosecutor general on Monday requested a freeze on the foreign assets of Hosni Mubarak and his family, 10 days after the long time president resigned in the face of a popular uprising. Abdel Magid Mahmud tasked Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit with contacting foreign countries to seek a freeze on assets held by Mubarak, his wife Suzanne, sons Alaa and Gamal and their wives Heidi Rashekh and Khadiga al-Gammal, his office said. Mubarak is widely thought to have grown wealthy during his three decades in power, although an unidentified legal adviser was quoted by the state-run MENA news agency yesterday as saying that talk of a multi-billion-dollar fortune was nothing but “a…
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