Ex-Egypt PM quizzed by military prosecutors

CAIRO. - Egypt’s former prime minister Ahmed Nazif is being questioned by military prosecutors on charges of corruption, a military source told AFP. Nazif is accused of seizing state-owned land and squandering public money. It is the first time a member of ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s regime faces military investigators.

“Nazif is currently being questioned by military justice,” the source said. The former premier is being in-vestigated along with the former governor of Luxor Samir Farag and businessman Mamduh Qoleib. The public prosecutors decided to transfer the case to the military prosecutors because Farag is a retired army general, the source said. In July, Nazif was given a one year suspended sentence for unlawful gains in a business deal worth 15 million dollars.