Egypt court acquits Mubarak-era officials of corruption charges
An Egyptian court has acquitted a prime minister and interior minister, who served under ousted dictator, Hosni Mubarak, of corruption charges.
The Cairo Criminal Court on Tuesday cleared the former premier, Ahmed Nazif, and Habib al-Adly, the ex-interior minister, of graft charges during a retrial.
The two officials were charged with illegal profiting and squandering public funds. They faced charges for collaborating in awarding a contract to a German firm to import license plates at an exorbitant price.
Nazif and Adly had been respectively sentenced to one-year and five-year jail terms in 2011 after the ouster of Mubarak.
An appeals court, however, overturned the verdicts and ordered the retrial.
Several Mubarak-era officials have been acquitted in retrials on charges of corruption as well as having a hand in the killing of anti-Mubarak protesters during rallies that ousted the long-time dictator.
Some human rights activists and protest leaders have been handed down lengthy terms for protests over the past year.
On Monday, a court in Egypt sentenced prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to five years in jail for what it called organizing an illegal protest in November 2014 outside the parliament building in the capital, Cairo.
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