Egyptian court sentences ex-finance minister to life term

Egypt's Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Tuesday in absentia former Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali to life in prison in a corruption case, official MENA news agency reported.

Ghali was accused of squandering 20 million Egyptian pounds (US$2.8 million) of public funds in a transaction of coupons used for distribution of subsided cooking gas.

The former finance minister, who fled Egypt after the eruption of the 2011 turmoil, was also sentenced to 30 years in prison in absentia in another graft case.

Many former regime officials were convicted of corruption and profiteering charges since former President Hosni Muabark's fall.

Mubarak himself is in temporary custody over three charges, illicit gains, looting public funds allocated for maintenance of presidential palaces and accepting gifts from state-owned newspapers.

He also had been serving life imprisonment for involvement in killing protesters in the unrest until Cairo Court of Appeals decided to retry him.

Mubarak ruled Egypt for almost three decades and was toppled after nationwide protests sweeping the country in January 2011.

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