An Egyptian court fined on Thursday former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly after he was found guilty of unintentional “abuse of public funds” through negligence, a judicial source said, according to Reuters.
Adly was ordered to pay 500 Egyptian pounds ($29).
Adly served under former President Hosni Mubarak, who was forced to resign following popular protests in 2011.
Adly and two other ministry officials was ordered in April 2017 to refund a total of 195 million Egyptian pounds and were fined the same amount. But the Court of Cassation, Egypt’s top civil court, overturned the sentence in January 2018 over procedural errors and ordered a retrial.
The court sentenced Nabil Khalaf, the former head of the ministry’s Central Administration of Finances and Budget, to three years in jail, ordering him to pay back 62.1 million Egyptian pounds ($3.6 million) and fining him 61.1 million pounds.
