Egypt’s General Prosecutor Hesham Barakat has decided to investigate fresh accusations of financial corruption against former president Hosni Mubarak, one week after the Court of Cassation has accepted an appeal by the former leader against a prison sentence he received for the last trial he is standing.
Barakat referred accusations by a number of political figures against Mubarak to the General Funds Prosecution and the Administrative Control Authority, judicial sources said.
The petitions were filed by former Education Minister Hossam Eissa and political science professor and former MP Gamal Zahran, in which they accused the former president of both financial and political corruption during his 30-year rule.
Mubarak was acquitted from charges of murdering protesters during the 2011 uprising that ousted him as well as financial corruption as his retrial closed last November. He was granted retrial earlier this month for the last case of corruption which ended with him receiving a three-year jail sentence.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
