1/14/2015
CAIRO – An Egyptian court on Tuesday accepted an appeal by former president Hosni Mubarak and annulled the sentence of three years in prison previously handed down against him in a corruption case.
Judicial sources told Efe that the court ordered a retrial in the case of misappropriation of public funds, related to the budget of the presidential palace.
According to the Egyptian system, the court will now refer the case to the Appeals Court, which will assign a criminal court for a retrial.
The criminal court may decide whether to free Mubarak as the new process takes place, a move which would be very controversial, or to keep him under house arrest at a military hospital in Cairo where he is currently being held.
The former president, ousted in February 2011, has no other conviction against him after a court annulled charges last month in the case of killing protesters during the 2011 revolution for which he was sentenced to a life imprisonment in the first trial.
The same court also acquitted him on the same day of two cases of corruption linked to the irregular sale of oil to Israel and acquiring five mansions in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm al-Sheikh.
Regarding the case considered on Tuesday by the Court of Cassation, Mubarak had been convicted in May for embezzling of 125 million Egyptian pounds ($17.5 million) allocated for the budget of the presidential palaces.
His sons, Alaa and Gamal, were also found guilty in this case and each remanded to four years in prison, sentences which were also canceled on Tuesday.
The court also ordered the defendants to give back 21 million Egyptian pounds ($3 million) to the state in compensation for the fraud and the payment of a fine of 125 million Egyptian pounds ($17.5 million).
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CAIRO – An Egyptian court on Tuesday accepted an appeal by former president Hosni Mubarak and annulled the sentence of three years in prison previously handed down against him in a corruption case.
Judicial sources told Efe that the court ordered a retrial in the case of misappropriation of public funds, related to the budget of the presidential palace.
According to the Egyptian system, the court will now refer the case to the Appeals Court, which will assign a criminal court for a retrial.
The criminal court may decide whether to free Mubarak as the new process takes place, a move which would be very controversial, or to keep him under house arrest at a military hospital in Cairo where he is currently being held.
The former president, ousted in February 2011, has no other conviction against him after a court annulled charges last month in the case of killing protesters during the 2011 revolution for which he was sentenced to a life imprisonment in the first trial.
The same court also acquitted him on the same day of two cases of corruption linked to the irregular sale of oil to Israel and acquiring five mansions in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm al-Sheikh.
Regarding the case considered on Tuesday by the Court of Cassation, Mubarak had been convicted in May for embezzling of 125 million Egyptian pounds ($17.5 million) allocated for the budget of the presidential palaces.
His sons, Alaa and Gamal, were also found guilty in this case and each remanded to four years in prison, sentences which were also canceled on Tuesday.
The court also ordered the defendants to give back 21 million Egyptian pounds ($3 million) to the state in compensation for the fraud and the payment of a fine of 125 million Egyptian pounds ($17.5 million).
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