Forty three senior members of the administration of former President Hosni Mubarak were notified that they will be prevented from leaving the country without a special permit.
A report in the Egyptian daily Al-Mitzri Al-Yom said that among those prohibited from leaving the country were former Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mafid Shahab, Information Minister Anas Alfaki, Foreign Minister Ahmed Abu al-Reit, Justice Minister Memudah Mar'ey, and Health Minister Hatam Al-Jabbari.
In addition, Egyptian legal authorities are preparing to prosecute some members of the former government, including possibly Mubarak himself, on violating the human rights of Egyptian citizens. For now, Egyptian banks have been instructed by the new military government to remain alert to activity in the bank accounts of a long list of former government officials and business people.
The accounts are to be investigated for illegal transfer of government funds, especially in the waning days of the last government. Accounts for Mubarak and family members have already been frozen in Egypt, as they have in Switzerland, but reports over the weekend said that Mubarak had succeeded in transferring a large amount of his wealth to banks in the Gulf countries.
According to a New York Times report, Egyptian generals had urged Mubarak to step down days before he actually quit, and that Mubarak delayed doing so until he had managed to spirit billions of dollars out of the country.
Meanwhile, Egypt appears to be gearing up for its first free elections in its history, and political parties have already begun staking out their ground. On Sunday, the the Al-Tahrir (Islamic Freedom) Party in Gaza, held a mass demonstration calling for Egypt to cancel the Camp David Accords, and to prepare to destroy the “occupation state” of Israel.
The Camp David Accord is likely to be an important issue in the upcoming election; Presidential candidate Ayman Nour, head of the secular-liberal Al-Ghad (Tomorrow) Party, on Sunday said that he would do away with the accords in their current form, if it were up to him.