Hussein Salem

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Hussein Salem ( Arabic حسين سالم, DMG Ḥusain Sālim ; * November 11, 1933 in Cairo ; † August 12, 2019 in Madrid ) was an Egyptian entrepreneur . He was considered a personal friend of the former Egyptian President Husni Mubarak .

Life

Salem was born on November 11, 1933 in Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. His father, Kamal el-Din, worked as a school teacher but died of typhus during Salem's childhood. Afterwards, his family moved into an apartment in the Korba district of Cairo's Heliopolis district. His mother, Hosnia Tabozoda, who was of Turkish origin, had great difficulty providing her children with her deceased husband's pension, forcing Salem, the eldest of his two siblings, to become the family's main provider. In addition, Salem had five half-siblings from his father's first wife (Hosnia was his second wife), but she was not responsible for them. Accordingly, most of them were older than Salem. In 1959 he married Nazimah Abdel-Hamid Ismail, whereupon the couple moved into a three-room apartment. The monthly rent was nine pounds (Salem's monthly salary was 18 pounds). The couple's first child, Khaled, was born in 1961, followed two years later by their daughter Magda. According to one of its neighbors, Salem didn't own a car or many luxury items in the 1960s and early 1970s. He enrolled Khaled in Saint George, a private British school in Heliopolis. Salem often had to borrow money to cover costs.

Career

From 2005 Salem was allowed to trade exclusively in Egyptian natural gas . Among other things, he controlled the East Mediterranean Gas Company .

Husni Mubarak was charged, among other things, with having obtained Hussein Salem a monopoly for natural gas exports below the market price to Israel and having received funds for it. According to the indictment, Salem is said to have earned more than 200 million euros in the deal. Salem was in custody in Spain in August 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wanted - SALEM, Hussein ( Memento from April 30, 2011 on WebCite )
  2. ↑ Mubarak's era business tycoon Hussein Salem this accessed in Madrid on August 13, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Daniel Baumann: The treasure of the Mubaraks. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 13, 2011, accessed February 14, 2011 .
  4. ↑ https://www.fr.de/politik/mubarak-seinem-kaefig-11399694.html
personal data
SURNAME Salem, Hussein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2019
Place of death Madrid