In his first video appearance after his father, former President Hosni Mubarak, stepped down from power in 2011, Gamal Mubarak revealed the details of his family’s legal battle with European courts over the family’s wealth.
Mubarak’s son said in a press statement that was read by video, “The Mubarak family’s decade-long legal battle has ended following the recent ruling by the General Court of the European Union, which once again recognized that the restrictive measures imposed by the Council of the European Union on the family were illegal from the start. “.
End of criminal investigation
He also added that “after the decision of the Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s Office to completely acquit Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, after the end of the criminal investigation, which lasted 11 years, it became clear to everyone that the family’s rights were violated.”
“My family has decided that we simply cannot remain silent any longer in the face of persistent defamatory reports and it is time for the family to respond directly.”
He also explained that “the measures that lasted for more than ten years, have now come to an end. We have been completely exonerated and confirmed the position that my family has held for more than a decade, specifically stressing that the European Union sanctions against us have always been unjustified. legal.”
Mubarak’s intention to respond
He revealed that “when his father decided to relinquish the ruling in February 2011, he announced his readiness to respond to any criminal charges against him and his family and refused to accept any kind of immunity and flatly rejected any proposal to leave Egypt,” noting that his late father confirmed in a recorded message that the decision was made. It was broadcast in April 2011 that Egyptians need to know that their former boss keeps money in only one bank in Egypt.
Mubarak family
Categorically, he said, “there is not a single evidence that my late father or mother may have owned overseas assets of any kind, nor has the allegations that other members of the family hid assets abroad have been substantiated.”
European Court of Justice decision
Last April, the European Court of Justice confirmed its previous decision to unfreeze the assets and funds of the late Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s family.
The court obligated the Council of the European Union to pay the costs incurred by the Mubarak family in the lawsuit related to the request for compensation in exchange for damages caused to family members due to the freezing of their money and assets.