Mubarak gets 3 years’ jail for graft
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DEPOSED former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison on a conviction for stealing public funds.
Mubarak’s two sons were sentenced to four years in jail on the same charges of embezzling state funds that had been earmarked for the renovation of presidential palaces but were instead spent on sprucing up family properties.
“He (Mubarak) should have treated people close and far from him equally,” said Judge Osama Shaheen as the 86-year-old fallen leader watched from a cage flanked by sons Gamal and Alaa. “Instead of abiding by the constitution and laws, he gave himself and his sons the freedom to take from public funds whatever they wanted to without oversight and without regard.”
Mubarak spent 23 months in jail from the uprising until August 2013, when he was transferred to house arrest.
Mubarak’s former intelligence boss, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is poised to be elected president next week in a vote that could boost the legitimacy of a military-backed government.
Since ex-army chief Sisi toppled elected president Mohamed Mursi in July, courts have meted out tough sentences to members of Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood and to secular activists.
Yesterday’s Mubarak ruling was for a financial crime, not a criminal one. However, many prominent activists have recently been given harsher sentences for street protests than Mubarak received for embezzling millions while serving as president. Senior members of the Brotherhood, including the spiritual guide of the Islamist movement, have been sentenced to death.
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