CAIRO – On Saturday, Egypt's Public Prosecutor Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud referred ex-Minister of Finance Youssef Boutros Ghali, who is currently abroad, to the criminal court on charges of squandering public money and profiteering, Al-Youm Al-Sabe reports. Former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and Interior Minister Habib el-Adli will also be tried in the criminal court on corruption charges. Ghali is overseas, but both Nazif and Adli are being held in Torah Prison on Cairo's southern outskirts. In addition to the corruption charges, Adli is also facing charges of money laundering and ordering police to shoot protesters during the popular uprising. Officials said the latest corruption charges pressed against the three former ministers stem from an ongoing investigation into a $15 million deal involving a contract to manufacture car number plates for the Interior Ministry. The developments come a couple of months after Mubarak was forced to step down from office on February 11 following mass protests across the country against his 30-year rule and following the control of the nation being handed over to the military. Currently, more than a dozen former ministers and businessmen with links to the Mubarak regime are facing investigations over a number of allegations, ranging from corruption and money laundering to abuse of authority and squandering State wealth. All of them have been banned from travelling abroad.