Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT

Court sentences Egypt's Mubarak to 3 years in prison fine


(MENAFN- Arab News) CAIRO: A court has sentenced Egypt's Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison and a fine on corruption charges.
The court in Cairo issued its verdict Saturday in the retrial facing 87-year-old autocrat overthrown in his country's 2011 revolt. However it's not clear if that will include the time he's already served.
The corruption case dubbed by the Egyptian media as the 'presidential palaces' affair concerns charges that Mubarak and his two sons embezzled millions of dollars' worth of state funds over the course of a decade. The funds were meant to pay for renovating and maintaining presidential palaces but were instead allegedly spent on upgrading the family's private residences.
Mubarak was sentenced to three years his sons to four in the case. He later appealed.



Arab News

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