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| Hosni Mubarak sentenced to three years over graft |
| 2014-05-22 |
| [DAWN] An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced ousted president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... to three years in prison on charges of stealing public funds. "The court orders Mohammed Hosni Mubarak to be sent to jail for three years," said judge Osama Shaheen as Mubarak looked on from a cage flanked by his sons, who were sentenced to four years in jail on the same charges. The court fined Mubarak and his sons 21.197 million Egyptian pounds ($2.98 million) and ordered them to repay about 125 million Egyptian pounds of funds the court said they had stolen. Mubarak's former intelligence chief, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is poised to be elected president next week. The verdict may please some Egyptians who lived through three decades of autocracy under Mubarak, but analysts say that businessmen still loyal to him are still influential. Rights groups say that abusive practices of the Mubarak regime are alive and well as another former military man prepares to take the reins of power. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Don't you just wish that you could see this headline about all of the crooks in DC? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-05-22 08:19 |
| #1 Meet the new boss... |
| Posted by: Raj 2014-05-22 00:23 |