Saturday, January 9, 2016

Egypt appeal court upholds Mubarak fine in presidential palaces case

The Egyptian Court of Cassation rejected on Saturday an appeal by ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons against their three-year prison sentences and LE125 million fine on charges of embezzling public funds.

The president and his two sons were appealing their convictions in the case known in the domestic media as the “presidential palaces case”, which saw them charged with embezzling LE125 million of public funds originally allocated for the upkeep of presidential buildings.

In a verdict in May 2014 the trio were fined a total of LE125 million and required to pay an additional LE21 million to the state.

At the time, Mubarak received a three-year prison sentence in the case, and his sons four-year sentences each, but it was reduced to three-years after appeal.

  • The three-year jail sentences have already been served during the trio's time in pre-trial detention, and given this Gamal and Alaa Mubarak walked free in May 2015. Their father returned to Maadi Military Hospital where he currently resides.

According to Egyptian law, pre-trial detention is counted as time served towards any possible sentence.

This is the final appeal in the presidential palaces case.

In November 2014, a court threw out a case in which the deposed autocrat was accused of complicity in murdering protesters during the January 2011 protests that led to his downfall. Egypt’s Court of Cassation can still decide to accept or reject an appeal by the general prosecution on 4 June.

In the same month, Hosni Mubarak was also cleared in two other cases.

The 87-year-old was cleared from charges of profiteering from his position by accepting presents in the form of villas in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, as the 10-year statute of limitations had expired.

Graft charges were also dropped in a case in which he was accused of exporting natural gas to Israel at below market prices.

 http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/180488.aspx
9/1/16
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