Former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and the former ministers of interior and finance are to face trial on charges of corruption

Former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif

Former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and the former ministers of interior and finance are to face trial on charges of corruption, a judicial source told AFP on Sunday.
  
"The former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, former interior minister Habib al-Adly and former finance minister Yussef Boutros-Ghali will face trial, charged with misusing public funds and unlawful gains valued at 92 million Egyptian pounds," (15 million dollars), the source said.
  
The three, along with a German businessman, are accused of illegal profiteering from a deal to import new vehicle number plates. They allegedly bought the number plates directly without calling for a public tender as laid down by law. They are also said to have bought the number plates for higher than their market price.
  
The trial is part of a sweeping probe into corruption launched under the ruling military council which took power when president Hosni Mubarak was ousted on February 11 following anti-regime protests.
  

Former Interior Minister Habib El-Adly

Nazif, who Mubarak sacked along with his cabinet on January 28 in a bid to placate the growing protest movement, was remanded in custody on April 10. Adly, the widely-reviled former interior minister, is already facing trial for fraud and is due to face criminal charges in connection with the shooting of protesters. Boutros-Ghali is out of Egypt.
  
Nationwide anti-regime protests that erupted on January 25 ended Mubarak's 30-year reign of the Arab world's most populous country and saw power transferred to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which vowed to bring to justice all those found guilty of abuse.
  
Mubarak, who was hospitalized last week following a heart attack, has also been remanded in custody in connection with the shooting of protesters. But he remains in a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where he fled with his family during the protests that brought

Fromer Finance Minister Youssef Ghali

the end of his presidency.
  
His two sons, Alaa and Gamal, are in the Tora prison complex in the capital, and face similar accusations. The complex, once home to political prisoners, now hosts a growing number of former regime officials, including Mubarak's former chief of staff Zakariah Azmy and his former party's leadership.
  
Mubarak's National Democratic Party was dissolved on Saturday by the Supreme Administrative Court, which ordered its funds and property to be handed to the government.