Mubarak and his two sons were also acquitted of all corruption charges.
Mubarak had been accused of selling natural gas to Israel at below-market prices in cooperation with business tycoon Hussein Salem.
Salem, Mubarak and his two sons Alaa and Gamal were also acquitted on other charges of illicit gains.
Mubarak and his co-defendants were found guilty in June 2012 and sentenced to life imprisonment. The initial verdict was appealed successfully and a retrial began in April 2013. Alaa and Gamal were defendants in the trial, but only faced corruption charges.
Despite being acquitted on Saturday, Mubarak and his two sons are still facing separate three-year prison terms for embezzlement of public funds.
The 86-year-old former president who ruled for 30 years has spent much of his detention at a military hospital on the southern outskirts of Cairo.
El-Adly will also remain jailed. In May 2011, he was convicted of money laundering and profiteering, for which he now serves a seven-year jail sentence.
Mubarak, Alaa, Gamal and Adly arrived to court early Saturday ahead of the verdict.
As with past trials, a number of Mubarak supporters were present in front of the court, raising his photograph. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/116711.aspx
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La cour a également acquitté Hosni Moubarak, âgé de 86 ans, d'accusations de corruption, notamment dans le cadre de la vente de gaz naturel égyptien à Israël qui se serait faite en dessous des prix du marché. L'ex-raïs égyptien était accusé d'avoir ordonné à la police de réprimer violemment le soulèvement populaire du "Printemps arabe" en 2011. Quelque 846 personnes étaient décédées lors de cet épisode. Il était jugé avec son ancien ministre de l'Intérieur Habib al-Adly, qui a également été acquitté..............http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_egypte-l-ex-president-moubarak-acquitte-sur-toute-la-ligne?id=8477613
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ReplyDeleteThe closure of the square came after reports that the families of the slain protesters planned to head to Tahrir, the epicentre of protests during the 2011 revolution, to express their rejection of the acquittal of Mubarak and his security aides.
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A court in Egypt has overturned the convictions for embezzlement of former President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons and ordered a retrial....
ReplyDeleteMr Mubarak was jailed for three years in May after being found guilty of fraudulently billing the government for $14m (£9.3m) of personal expenses.
But the Court of Cassation found legal procedures were not followed properly.
Mr Mubarak's lawyer told the BBC the 86-year-old would soon be released from detention at a Cairo military hospital.
It was the last remaining case keeping Mr Mubarak behind bars.
Charges of conspiring in the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising that ended his rule in 2011 were dropped in November.
The former president and his sons - Alaa, 53, and Gamal, 51 - were also cleared of two separate corruption charges.
Homes and palaces
The Court of Cassation, Egypt's top appeals court, announced that it had overturned the three men's convictions for embezzlement and ordered a retrial at a brief session on Tuesday morning.
At the original trial, prosecutors alleged that Mr Mubarak and his sons had billed the government for more than 100,000 Egyptian pounds of personal expenses - including utility bills, interior design, landscaping, furniture and appliances - for several private homes and a public palace that was fraudulently transferred to their ownership.
Other expenses included renovating a villa, and building a new palace wing to accommodate one of Mr Mubarak's granddaughters and a mausoleum for a grandson who died, they said.
Evidence submitted by the prosecutors included more than a thousand original and forged receipts.
When a new court is assigned for the retrial, the judges could order Mr Mubarak to be freed because no convictions against him remain.
Egyptian media report that he had been expected to be released from the military hospital at Maadi on 17 January even if the embezzlement conviction was upheld because he has been in custody since April 2011.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30792001
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An Egyptian court on Tuesday ordered a retrial into an embezzlement case against former president Hosni Mubarak, dropping the only remaining conviction faced by the ousted leader and potentially leading to his release...
ReplyDeleteMubarak was sentenced to three years in jail in May for stealing public funds to renovate family properties. He has been serving that sentence in a military hospital in Cairo.
Now a retrial has been ordered, and judicial sources say Mubarak could walk free as no convictions against him remain.
In November, another court dropped charges against Mubarak for conspiring to kill protesters in the 2011 uprising that removed him from power and cleared him in two graft cases. It was not clear if Mubarak would remain in detention pending retrials.
About 800 people were killed during the 18-day uprising that unseated Mubarak, during which protesters clashed with police across the country and torched police stations.
Mubarak's successor, Mohammed Morsi, a leader of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood opposition group under Mubarak, was overthrown by the army himself in 2013 following massive protests.
Mubarak's former military intelligence chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is now president.
(FRANCE 24 with REUTERS)
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