Revolutie in Egypte #181: Het feest gaat door

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Mubarak -- who stepped down on Friday in the wake of massive protests that have gripped Cairo and Alexandria for weeks -- and his family have a net worth of at least $5 billion, analysts tell The Huffington Post. Recent media reports pegging the family fortune at between $40 and $70 billion are considered to be exaggerated.

Much of their fortune has reportedly been invested in offshore bank accounts in Europe and in upscale real estate. On Friday, Switzerland froze accounts possibly belonging to Mubarak and his family, a spokesman told Reuters, under new laws governing ill-gotten gains. Last month, the Swiss froze the accounts of Mubarak's ally, ousted Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, whose overthrow inspired the first protests in Cairo.

The Mubarak family reportedly owns properties around the world, from London and Paris to New York and Beverly Hills. In addition to homes in the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh and the upscale Cairo district of Heliopolis, they also have a six-story mansion in the Knightsbridge section of London, a house near the Bois de Bologne in Paris and two yachts.

Largely through Mubarak's two sons, Gamal and Alaa, the family controls a network of companies that earn money through concessions wrangled from foreign companies that do business in Egypt, according to prominent businessmen and "Corruption In Egypt: The Black Cloud Is Not Disappearing," an investigative report compiled in 2006 by a coalition of opposition groups. (The report, which names the companies allegedly owned by the Mubarak brothers and details multiple instance of corruption by government officials, has been cited by numerous international good government groups, such as Transparency International, but it was taken offline and is no longer available on the Internet. The Huffington Post obtained a copy, replete with rhetorical flourishes and thinly-sourced allegations, which is available here.)

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2011 09:26 schreef wdn het volgende:
Net een tweet op aje: " Protests in Algiers, Bahrein and Marokko.
It is hunting season and people are hungry for dictators"

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2011 10:54 schreef -jos- het volgende:

Egypt's remarkable 18 days

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2011 10:54 schreef -jos- het volgende:

Egypt's remarkable 18 days

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2011 10:59 schreef Baghdaddy het volgende:

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Bahrein?

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2011 11:31 schreef -jos- het volgende:
lindseyhilsum In #tahrir ppl cleaning up wearing signs: yesterday I was a demonstrator, today I build Egypt @channel4news #egypt

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2011 11:40 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Opmerkelijk bericht net :
http://www.akherakhbar.info/showarticle.asp?id=1157

Moebi onwel geraakt en in coma. Alleen ik vertrouw de bron niet. Kan het nergens anders vinden......

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2011 11:44 schreef Daniel1976 het volgende:

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Er staat ook in het bericht dat hij kanker heeft?
Hmm dat is nog niet bekend hier.

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2011 11:44 schreef Daniel1976 het volgende:

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Er staat ook in het bericht dat hij kanker heeft?
Hmm dat is nog niet bekend hier.