Saturday, February 19, 2011

Swiss Locate Funds Linked to Mubarak : MubarakBy DAVID

بضعة درزينات من ملايين الدولارات يكشف عنها في سويسرا تعود ملكيتها الى مبارك وافراد العائلة.
سويسرا تصرفت لوحدها عندما اصدرت اوامر بتجميد الحسابات، التي تعود الى آل مبارك

After Mr. Mubarak’s resignation on Feb. 11, Swiss officials ordered all banks in the country to search for and freeze his assets and those of his family, four former ministers and a wealthy party insider.

Egypt’s new military-led government has asked countries across the Western and Arab world to freeze the assets of the four former ministers, the party insider and their families, American officials said. But it has not asked countries to freeze the assets of Mr. Mubarak and his relatives.

Switzerland is acting on its own against the Mubarak family’s assets, under a new law that allows government officials to freeze accounts belonging to any former leader suspected of corruption. The law was enacted to change the country’s reputation as a haven for illegally acquired money.

Egyptian opposition members said they feared that the country’s military-led government would shield Mr. Mubarak, a former Air Force chief, and his relatives from investigation. A senior official of the National Association for Change, an opposition group led by Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, called for an investigation into the Mubarak family and 200 other officials.