A Cairo court acquitted former prime minister Ahmed Nazif and former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli of charges of wasting 92 million Egyptian pounds of public funds through irregularly procuring vehicle license plates, on Tuesday.
Initially, a primary court had sentenced Nazif to a suspended year and Adli to five years. Both Adli and Nazif appealed the court’s decision and the Court of Cassation overturned the sentences and ordered their retrial in February 2013.
Former finance minister Youssef Boutrous-Ghali also faced charges in this trial and was sentenced to ten years in absentia in the initial verdict.
The three officials were part of toppled President Hosni Mubarak’s last government before the outbreak of protests which led to his removal from power in early 2011.