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Egypt ex-Finance Minister Gets Life in Absentia
[An Nahar] A Cairo court on Tuesday sentenced Egypt's former finance minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali to life in prison in absentia on corruption charges, judicial sources said.Boutros-Ghali, who served as finance minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , is accused of squandering public funds to the value of 20 million Egyptian pounds (almost $3 million), the court said. After fleeing Egypt in 2011, he was sentenced to 30 years in absentia in a separate fraud case. Boutros-Ghali, the nephew of former U.N. secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Boutros is the one who was gifted $100,000 from Grandmaw, who fell down an elevator shaft when they started investigating the transaction. is one of a string of Mubarak-era ministers to face justice as part of a sweeping probe into fraud by Egypt's former leaders that followed the uprising. Mubarak himself is to face a new trial in May over his alleged complicity in the murder and attempted murder of peaceful protesters during the uprising. Posted by: Fred 2013-04-24 |
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