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"At that point, his focus probably shifted to just getting out alive." And with as much fiat currency credits as he could.
by panacea 16y ago
"At that point, his focus probably shifted to just getting out alive."
And with as much fiat currency credits as he could.
- brc 16y agoI would be willing to bet he didn't leave with any paper based currency. I'm guessing that, like the Tunisian president, part of the delay was loading the gold into his vehicles for departure. When fleeing despots flee, they take the original monetary unit with them. Universally accepted, not subject to government induced devaluations and virtually untraceable : Gold.
- code_duck 16y agoI'd imagine Mubarak has plenty of of Euros and USD in Swiss bank accounts, which he probably was working on transferring to backup accounts for the past few weeks.