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Egyptian court clears former Mubarak minister Habib el-Adly
A court in Egypt has cleared former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly, who served under deposed President Hosni Mubarak, of charges of corruption and money laundering.
El-Adly was being retried after receiving a 12-year sentence in 2011.
He ran Mubarak's security services for more than 10 years before the Egyptian leader was overthrown in the same year.
Correspondents say he will stay in jail because he was convicted in an earlier case and faces charges in others.
El-Adly was also sentenced, along with the former president, to life imprisonment in 2012 over the killing of protesters.
But that verdict was overturned on technical grounds and the pair are now being retried along with six police commanders.
In May, Mubarak was sentenced to three years in prison after he was found guilty of embezzling public funds. His sons Alaa and Gamal each received four-year terms.
However their court appearances have been in part overshadowed by other high profile court cases - including the 15-year sentence for pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdul Fattah handed down on Wednesday.
Criminal proceedings are also ongoing against ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, who is standing trial on a raft of charges along with
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Habib el-Adly: Seven-year jail sentence for corruption
An Egyptian court has sentenced former interior minister Habib el-Adly, who served under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, to seven years in jail for corruption.
Adly was found guilty on Saturday of embezzling more than $110m of public funds. The verdict can be appealed before Egypt’s top civil court, the court of cassation.
A long-serving official at the top of Egypt‘s feared internal security apparatus, Adly has faced a string of criminal cases against him since the 2011 uprising that ousted Mubarak.
READ MORE: Hosni Mubarak walks free after six-year detention
He was released in 2015 after serving three years in prison on charges of using police conscripts as free labour on his private properties
In 2012, he was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising. The charges were dropped two years later after an appeals court ordered a retrial.
Adly has also been acquitted on other charges of money laundering and profiteering. He did not attend Saturday’s verdict and is expected to be taken into custody.
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A number of Mubarak-era officials have secured acquittals since the military overthrew president Mohamed Morsi in 2013 and its f
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Former Mubarak inner minister Habib al Adly sentenced chew out 12 years
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