Former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq
12 September 2012. Egyptian authorities ordered the arrest of ousted Hosni Mubarak’s last Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq on Tuesday on suspicion of corruption, judicial sources said. Shafiq, who has been living abroad in the United Arab Emirates since narrowly losing the first post-Mubarak elections to Islamist incumbent Mohamed Mursi in June, has been barred from travel using his Egyptian passport since last month. The Egyptian judiciary did not mention any extradition request, saying only that he would be arrested if he set foot back in Egypt. The officials said Tuesday Shafiq has been referred to trial on charges linked to his time as the chairman of a housing association in the 1990s when he allegedly sold plots of land at a fraction of their value to Mubarak’s sons, Gamal and Alaa. Alaa and Gamal were acquitted in a trial in which their father Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of protesters during the uprising that toppled him. The two remain in custody, however, awaiting trial on other corruption charges
