Cairo’s criminal court upheld Sunday the Iliegal Gains Committee's decision to ‎freeze the assets of Safwat El-Sherif and Zakaria Azmi, former heads of the Upper House and Hosni ‎Mubarak’s office respectively, as well as the former housing minister Ibrahim Soliman.‎

Recent investigations confirmed that their wealths to dwarf the incomes for their ‎posts.‎

The court is yet to decide on the assets of former parliamentary speaker Fathi Sorour, ‎whose wealth is still under investigation.‎

Sorour, El-Sherif, Azmi were the inner circle of the old guard supporting ousted president Hosni ‎Mubarak within the National Democratic Party.‎

The trio, along with Soliman, are ‎indicted on charges of abusing their political powers to accumulate illegal profits. ‎

The assets of the defendants’ families have also been frozen.