Mubarak family: Opponents of the late president launched false campaigns to inflame popular feelings

The family of the late Egyptian President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak revealed the details of the family’s statement after the successful conclusion of all its international judicial procedures, and the text of the statement stated, “More than ten years ago, a fierce campaign of false allegations of corruption was launched against President Mubarak and his family, and the forces opposed to the president exploited these allegations to inflame these allegations. popular sentiment.

The statement said: This greatly contributed to influencing the course of the political events that followed in Egypt in January and February of 2011.

This campaign continued unabated for nearly ten years while we were engaged in our legal battles.

The statement continued: The family was not seeking to file cases before international courts, and the family did not imagine taking this position, and our commitment was to prove our innocence before the Egyptian judiciary only.

But the Egyptian authorities forced us to take a different approach after deciding to legally pursue us abroad, and this vigorous prosecution relied on false and unreasonable allegations of money allegedly “smuggled” abroad by the family, and details of all domestic criminal proceedings have been provided. Filed against us as evidence to the relevant international authorities, the aim was to recover money allegedly illegally seized by the family.

He continued: At the requests of Egypt, various external authorities took precautionary measures, internal sanctions, and opened investigations with family members, and the aim was to investigate whether the allegations against us in Egypt were well-founded or related to any assets held abroad. .

Gamal Mubarak continued in his statement, “This included the European Union sanctions that were specifically and solely based on Egyptian actions against the family, so we had no other choice but to vigorously defend our position before foreign judicial authorities, and my family had to endure a ten-year battle to answer every libelous allegation.” against us.

He said: Our goal is to cancel the European Union sanctions imposed on us and prove their illegality, and we analyzed with patience, perseverance and fortitude, and did not allow any of these lies to remain unanswered, continuing: “Indeed, we have responded to them, including through successful judicial procedures before international courts and investigative authorities that enjoy Respectfully, he emphasized: It's time to put things right.

He pointed out: Today, after ten years of extensive investigations, including many requests for international mutual legal assistance between various jurisdictions and numerous judicial proceedings in many countries, it has been proven that all the allegations against us were completely false, there is not a single evidence that my father The late or my mother may have foreign assets of any kind.

The allegations that other members of the family attached assets abroad were not proven, and there was a voluntary and transparent disclosure of all our assets in line with applicable laws, and all allegations regarding the professional activity of me and my brother were not proven, and the legitimacy of all our sources of income were found.

With broad powers entrusted to us including requiring suspects to explain their family sources, not a single jurisdiction in any EU Member State, or indeed in any other foreign jurisdiction, has detected any legal infringement by me or my family.

In summary, these judicial authorities have not attributed to us any illegal assets, hidden assets, or unknown origins to any member of President Mubarak's family. These are the facts, which have been independently and judicially verified and therefore cannot be refuted.

He explained: "While the European Union sanctions imposed on President Mubarak and his family were lifted in March 2021, we continued our legal battle against the European Council in the courts of the European Union. Our goal was to prove conclusively that the sanctions were illegal from the beginning because they were based on legal procedures that violated our rights." the basic.

He added, "Our appeal against these sanctions was not primarily motivated by the unfreezing of any funds, especially since my late father and mother never owned any assets of any kind outside Egypt."

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