ALJAZEERA: …Egyptian authorities will detain [Ahmed] Shafiq, former President Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, for questioning over an alleged corruption case if he returns from abroad, el-Saeidy said on Wednesday.
“The investigative judge decided to put General Ahmed Shafiq’s name on the watch and travel ban lists based on investigations over his illegal allocation of 40,000 square metres of land … to Alaa and Gamal Mubarak (the former president’s sons),” el-Saeidy said…
The case against Shafiq was lodged in May by Essam Sultan, a leader of the Islamist Wasat Party, who accused the former airforce chief of exploiting his former position as head of the Young Air Force Officers Association to sell land owned by the association to Mubarak’s sons at reduced prices… (more)
