Ahmed El Maghrabi
Ahmed Alaa El -Din Amin al- Maghrabi (Arabic أحمد المغربي, DMG Aḥmad al - Maġribī, born 1945 ) is an Egyptian politician. He sits on the board of the Future Generation Foundation ( FGF) of Gamal Mubarak and Egypt was Housing Minister in the Cabinet Nazif. In the course of the revolution in Egypt in 2011, he was released and charged with corruption.
Life
Ahmed al - Maghrabi completed a degree in mechanical engineering in 1964 as a bachelor's degree from Cairo University in 1966 with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering at the University of North Carolina from. He was master of business administration from Columbia University in 1968.
In 1990 he was a founding member of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies. From 1997 to 2002 he sat in the Federation of Tourism Chambers. His seat on the board of Accor Hotels rested for the duration of its participation in the government, its shares in this AG, he therefore did not sell.
2002 El- Maghrabi was elected to the Economic Council of the National Democratic Party of Egypt. It was from October 5, 1999 to July 9 2004 Cabinet Minister for Tourism and Abaid of July 9, 2004 to 29th January 2011 at the Cabinet Minister Nazif for settlement and Wohunugsbau.
In early February, 2011, the Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, the decision noted that Ahmed al - Maghrabi is one of the former members of the government who can not leave Egypt and their assets have been frozen. On February 4, an investigation was taken against him on the part of the prosecutor. On 17 February 2011 it was announced that he and two other politicians were arrested on suspicion of corruption. He is accused of trying mid-2010 with the then Minister of Transport Mohamed Lotfi Mansour to have to occur for 238 acre ( unit ) about 96 acres on an island in the Nile at Aswan as middlemen. Article 158 of the Egyptian Constitution prohibits government officials, the acquisition of and trade in goods from the state property. A court in Cairo sentenced him on May 26, to five years in prison for corruption.