VOL. XLV

No 51/52

23/30-December-2002

EGYPT

Retrial Ordered For Jailed Former Egyptian Finance Minister

The Egyptian Court of Cassation, the highest judicial authority in the country, has overruled a Cairo Criminal Court ruling which sentenced former Finance Minister Muhyi al-Din al-Gharib to hard labor in prison along with five other defendants on charges of corruption, and ordered a retrial. The six were accused by the public prosecution of profiteering and ill-use of powers. The minister...