Ahmed Alaeldin Amin Abdelmaksoud El Maghrabi (Arabic: أحمد علاء الدين أمين عبد المقصود المغربي, born 16 May 1945 in Cairo) is an Egyptian-Saudi businessman and former housing minister with the National Democratic Party.
[9] After Hosni Mubarak was sworn in for his sixth term as president, a reshuffle in December 2005 saw El Maghrabi appointed as Minister of Housing even though he had no experience in that sector.
[12] The neoliberal policies of the Nazif cabinet, which was controlled by Mubarak's son, Gamal, in his bid for succession, is widely seen to have precipitated the 2011 Egyptian Revolution,[13] that rose against widespread inequity and corruption, ending El Maghrabi's term as housing minister and career in politics.
[14] El Maghrabi's charges included profiteering, misappropriation of public funds and seizing state land and were part of a series of trials following the Egyptian revolution and held in Tora Prison.
[18] While no investigations were made into Swiss bank accounts under his wife's name that were found to have held hundreds of thousands of dollars, and were never declared when he assumed the ministry as per Illicit Gains Law 62/1975, nor frozen as were his other assets both locally and internationally.