CAIRO - Egypt's Public Prosecution on Wednesday ordered all the banks operating in the country to provide information on any potential assets owned by ex-President Hosni Mubarak, his wife Suzanne Thabet and his two sons Gamal and Alla, as well as underage grandchildren. Receiving several reports on the ‘swollen wealth' of Mubarak and his family in Egypt, Chief Prosecutor Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud on Monday imposed a travel ban on the ex-ruler and his family, and also ordered a freeze on their assets. Nationwide protests had driven Mubarak to step down on February 11. Meanwhile, a Cairo court Wednesday set March 24 for the first hearing in a lawsuit filed by a lawyer seeking urgent ruling on removing the name of Muabrak and allegedly corrupt officials from all the streets, squares and whatever facilities bearing their names. Lawyer Samir Sabri said in his lawsuit that he had contacted head of Egypt's interim government Ahmed Shafiq, on the issue. “By virtue of the revolutionary legitimacy that ousted Mubarak, and necessitats to bring the corrupt to justice, people came to discover the corruption of the ex-leader,” Sabri said. “Based on this,” Sabri added, “I am seeking to wipe away the name of Mubarak, any member of his family and those involved in corruption, from whatever facilities bearing their names”. Names of the ‘January 25 revolution martyrs' should replace them, he said. In another corruption case, the Chief Prosecutor referred a complaint filed against Chairman of the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) Abdullah Hassan to the Public Funds Prosecution. The report filed by some MENA staff memebrs, accuses Hassan of financial irregularities.
