File photo of Legal Expert Yahia al-Gamal." title="Yahia al-Gamal" class="imagecache imagecache-highslide_zoom" width="536" height="402">Newly-appointed
Deputy Prime Minster Yehia al-Gamal on Tuesday pointed to the presence
of "certain ministers" in Egypt's new caretaker government that had been
accused by the public of corruption.
“I have no personal differences with them,” he said. “But I side with the public in this matter.”
Al-Gamal
also said he had briefed Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq on the issue. “The
prime minister told me that it was up to the Supreme Council of the
Armed Forces to replace these ministers,” al-Gamal said.
He
also ruled out rumors that ousted president Hosni Mubarak was still
running the country from the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh.
“This
is not true,” said al-Gamal, noting that Egypt's attorney-general had
frozen the former president's assets and those of his immediate family.
“Mubarak
is ill and depressed,” he added. “And the prime minister has informed
me that the armed forces council is now in control.”
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