Egypt’s Mubarak returns to his Cairo’s house

Mubarak’s lawyer Fareed Al Deeb revealed that Egypt’s former President returned to his house in East Cairo for the first time since he was ousted from the power after January 25 uprising in 2011.

He added that Mubarak’s return to his house came upon the decision taken by the Egyptian authorities to acquit the former president from the accusations against him. He added that Mubarak left Maadi military hospital in Cairo’s district of Maadi.

When Mubarak left the power in 2011, he transferred to live in his villa located in the Egyptian resort of Sharm Al Sheikh, as he remained there until the issuance of the arrest warrant against the former president in accusations of killing the demonstrators, corruption and embezzling the public funds during his 30-year rule.

The decision was the beginning of a long journey with the hospitals that continued for over six years. It started with Sharm Al Sheikh Hospital in which the former president was transferred against the backdrop of the deterioration of his health condition after the decision to arrest his with members of his family.

A state of controversy has been raised for keeping Mubarak in the hospital amid increasing pressures exerted by the revolutionaries to imprison the former president or at least to transfer him into a hospital related to the prisons authority. However, the Interior Ministry refused to transfer Mubarak to Torah Prison’s hospital due to the lack of medical equipment.

Egypt’s former Attorney General Abdel Maguid Mahmoud, in response, decided to transfer the former president into one of the military hospitals. The authorities referred Mubarak to World Medical Center related to the military institution in the desert Cairo-Ismailia road in May 2011.

During the rule of Muslim Brotherhood, former Attorney General Talat Abdullah, appointed by former President Mohamed Morsi, decided to transfer Mubarak into the hospital of Torah Prison in April 2013, while the former president left the prison’s hospital after less than four months, as he was transferred to Maadi Military Hospital. The decision to transfer Mubarak to the military hospital came upon the court’s decision to release him in the case known as Ahram’s gift.

Mubarak’s return to his house coincides with the decision taken by Egyptian court to re-open the investigations over the same case on Thursday.

According judicial sources, Egypt’s Court decided Thursday to open the investigations with Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak in a new corruption case, days after the decision taken by the prosecution to release him against the backdrop of the verdict acquitting him from other cases.

The sources added that Mubarak and his family are accused receiving gifts from Ahram press institution during the period between 2006 until January 2011, including watches, golden pens and golden pounds in addition to sets of diamond and jewelry.

The Egyptian prosecution accepted before to settle the issue through forcing the former president to pay one million dollars, while Cairo Criminal Court decided to reopen the case after the appeal submitted by judge of investigations.