Alaa Mohammed Hosni El Sayed Mubarak ( ar, علاء محمد حسني السيد مبارك; ) (born 26 November 1960 in

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) is an Egyptian businessman and the elder of two sons of

Hosni Mubarak Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak, (; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. Before he entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in ...

, the former President of Egypt who served from 1981 to 2011, and his wife Suzanne Mubarak.

Early life and education

Alaa Mubarak was born in Cairo to Suzanne Mubarak and

, who became President of Egypt in 1981, ousted in 2011.(28 June 2012
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Al Jazeera) Alaa attended St. George's College, Cairo and graduated from the

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Career

Mubarak has kept a much lower profile than his younger brother,

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who was involved in politics prior to the

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. In 2011, he was arrested together with his father and brother and three of them later convicted for corruption in 2014. Alaa and his brother were released in October 2015 after completing their four-year prison sentence, which included time already served. The EU had imposed sanctions on all three of them, and froze all assets that Mubarak disclosed. Alaa Mubarak has been named in association with the

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. In 2013, the British Virgin Islands financial services discovered that Alaa Mubarak owned 'Pan World Investments', an investment fund for the Mubarak family of nearly $1 billion incorporated by

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. In September 2018, Alaa was arrested along with his brother Gamal, and accused of manipulating the stock market. Alaa's corruption conviction, along with the corruption convictions of his father and brother, was upheld by Egypt's

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the same month as well. Both Alaa and his brother were later acquitted in February 2020 of the 2018 illicit share trading charge. On 12 March 2021, the

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revoked the sanctions against nine Egyptian individuals including Mubarak family, adopted since 2011.

Personal life

Mubarak is married to Heddy Rasekh, with whom he has had two sons, Muhammad and Omar Alaa Mubarak. Muhammad died on 18 May 2009, aged 12. It was announced that he had suffered a 'severe health crisis', which was identified as a brain haemorrhage. He was checked into the Maadi Military Hospital for a couple of hours before being flown to Paris for further care, where he later died. His body was returned and buried in Cairo.

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1960 births The American University in Cairo alumni Children of presidents of Egypt Egyptian businesspeople Living people Egyptian Muslims Egyptian people of Welsh descent Alaa St. George's College, Cairo alumni People named in the Panama Papers Sons of national leaders {{Egypt-business-bio-stub