A Cairo court sentenced Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak to three years prison time and a fine on corruption charges, reported AP.
The court issued the verdict Saturday in the 87-year-old deposed president’s retrial. Mubarak was overthrown in Egypt’s 2011 revolution, a movement that was a part of the region-wide “Arab Spring.” It is not clear whether the three-year prison sentence will include time the former leader has already served behind bars.
The corruption charges concerned millions of dollars of state funds that Mubarak and his two sons embezzled over the course of a decade. The funds, meant to pay for renovation and maintenance of presidential residences, instead went towards funding the family’s private estates.
His sons were sentenced for four years prison time.
The hearing took place at a police academy outside Cairo, in the same courtroom where ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi was sentenced last month to a twenty-year prison sentence for inciting violence on protesters.
