The chairman of the committee on retrieving smuggled funds under former President Hosni Mubarak, top prosecutor Nabil Sadeq, will address the Interpol to lift the names of Rachid Mohamed Rachid, the Mubarak-era Minister of Trade and Industry, and members of his family from the lists of people banned from travel at ports, a judicial source said.
Rachid and his family have reconciled with the state in financial corruption cases through the committee, after paying LE500 million.
Rachid's lawyers filed requests with the criminal court to retry Rachid in three financial corruption cases, where he has already been sentenced to prison in absentia.
The cases were dropped after Rachid reconciled with the committee on retrieving funds, in accordance with Article 6 of law number 28 for the year 2015.
Rachid was accused in two cases of profiting from his position and in the third case of illicit gains along with his daughter Alia.
Rachid has been found guilty in some corruption lawsuits brought against him. In August 2014, he was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison over illicit gains charges.
The ex-minister left Egypt after the January 25, 2011 revolution, which toppled President Hosni Mubarak from power.
He submitted a reconciliation request to the Illicit Gains Authority to return to the statethe sum of LE500 million in return for propping charges against him.
Meanwhile, the Illicit Gains Authority announced in August 2016 another reconciliation deal with Mubarak-era tycoon Hussein Salem, after he agreed to waive 75 percent of his and his family's wealth.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
