Mubarak trial: the prosecution, judge and defence


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Mostafa Suleiman

Cairo's deputy attorney genera leads the prosecution.

He also has had to coordinate more than 100 lawyers representing victims of last year's crackdown.

In his opening comments, broadcast on public television, he condemned Mubarak's rule, saying, "He deserves to end in humiliation and indignity, from the presidential palace to the defendants' cage and then the harshest penalty."

Farid El Deeb

The dapper, cigar-smoking defender of controversial defendants, represents Hosni Mubarak and his sons Gamal and Alaa.

In 1997, he represented Azzam Azzam, a member of Israel's Arab Druze minority who was accused of spying on Egypt for Israel.

Azzam, who was accused of using women's underwear soaked in invisible ink to pass industrial secrets to Israel, was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison. However, he was released as part of a prisoner swap after serving eight years.

Mr El Deeb later represented Ayman Nour, who opposed Mubarak in the 2005 presidential elections and was imprisoned for three years for campaign document forgeries.

He also defended Taalat Moustafa, a business tycoon who was convicted of ordering the murder of a Lebanese singer in Dubai and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Mr El Deeb has maintained that Mubarak is still the president of Egypt because he did not sign a letter of resignation.

Ahmed Refaat

Ahmed Refaat, 70, leads a panel of three judges who are conducting the trial.

He has taken on the case as his final trial before retirement.

He sent Abdullah Tayel, the former chairman of the parliament's economic affairs committee, to prison for illegally acquiring public funds and money laundering in 1999, along with 18 other defendants.

He also ordered the release of 16 Muslim Brotherhood defendants in a case that many considered a political move to repress the group.

"In God's words, if you are to judge people, you must do so with justice," he said before the trial began last year.

UAE currency: the story behind the money in your pockets
Libya's Gold

UN Panel of Experts found regime secretly sold a fifth of the country's gold reserves. 

The panel’s 2017 report followed a trail to West Africa where large sums of cash and gold were hidden by Abdullah Al Senussi, Qaddafi’s former intelligence chief, in 2011.

Cases filled with cash that was said to amount to $560m in 100 dollar notes, that was kept by a group of Libyans in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

A second stash was said to have been held in Accra, Ghana, inside boxes at the local offices of an international human rights organisation based in France.

Other ways to buy used products in the UAE

UAE insurance firm Al Wathba National Insurance Company (AWNIC) last year launched an e-commerce website with a facility enabling users to buy car wrecks.

Bidders and potential buyers register on the online salvage car auction portal to view vehicles, review condition reports, or arrange physical surveys, and then start bidding for motors they plan to restore or harvest for parts.

Physical salvage car auctions are a common method for insurers around the world to move on heavily damaged vehicles, but AWNIC is one of the few UAE insurers to offer such services online.

For cars and less sizeable items such as bicycles and furniture, Dubizzle is arguably the best-known marketplace for pre-loved.

Founded in 2005, in recent years it has been joined by a plethora of Facebook community pages for shifting used goods, including Abu Dhabi Marketplace, Flea Market UAE and Arabian Ranches Souq Market while sites such as The Luxury Closet and Riot deal largely in second-hand fashion.

At the high-end of the pre-used spectrum, resellers such as Timepiece360.ae, WatchBox Middle East and Watches Market Dubai deal in authenticated second-hand luxury timepieces from brands such as Rolex, Hublot and Tag Heuer, with a warranty.

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