CAIRO: Egypt's Attorney General, Adbel Meguid Mahmoud, has ordered the assets of former president Hosni Mubarak and his family abroad to be frozen, reported Egypt's state-run news agency, MENA, on Monday. Mahmoud instructed the Minister of Foreign Affairs to request through diplomatic channels that foreign countries freeze accounts of Mubarak, his wife Suzanne Saleh Thabet, his eldest son Alaa and Alaa's wife Heidi Magdy Rasekh, Mubarak's younger son Gamal Mubarak, and Gamal's wife Khadija Mahmoud al-Gamal. Mubarak's legal representative denied reports by some Egyptian and foreign media regarding the size of Mubarak's wealth and assets and property abroad which has been estimated at over $70 billion, after he submitted Mubarak`s final financial statement to the judiciary on Sunday. A document revealed by the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights on Sunday showed that Mubarak owns platinum worth US$15 billion. A request for an investigation into the document's authenticity has been filed with the attorney general by Khaled Ali, the head of the Egyptian Center. He attached a scan of a United Bank of Switzerland deposit form to enable investigations, where he claimed Mubarak Deposited 19,000 KG of platinum in his Swiss bank account in 1982, then worth US $15 billion. BM
