The court also reduced sentence on his 2 sons, Gamal and Alaa, to 3 years - down from four - in the same case on graft charges.
Mubarak had initiallt received a three-year prison sentence in the case, and his sons four-year sentences each.
Both Mubarak and his sons appealed the court ruling.
On Saturday, The court issued a fine for the three of LE125 million and ordered them return LE21 million to the state.
Since the trio had spent over three years in preventative detention in this and other cases, Mubarak and his two sons are expected to leave the court to return home.
Mubarak served preventative-detention time from April 2011 to August 2013 awaiting trial in various cases, and then was transferred to the Maadi Military hospital where he remained under house arrest.
According to Egyptian law, preventative-detention time is counted as time served towards any possible sentence.
Last May, Mubarak, and his sons Gamal and Alaa, were originally convicted of embezzling LE125 million ($17.9 million) allocated for the upkeep of presidential palaces in order to develop their own private buildings.
According to Egyptian law, in cases appealed by plaintiffs, courts can: accept or reject appeals; uphold or reduce verdicts; but are not allowed to mete out an increased sentence.
In January, Alaa and Gamal Mubarak were released after serving the maximum period of preventative detention awaiting trials.
The two still face charges of corrupt stock exchange dealings in a separate case.
Meanwhile, this graft trial has been the only case Mubarak, who was tried on various charges, has received a prison sentence in.
In November, a court threw out a case in which the deposed autocrat was accused of complicity in murdering protesters during the January 2011 protests that led to his downfall. Egypt’s Court of Cassation can still decide to accept or reject an appeal by the general prosecution on 4 June.
In the same month, Mubarak was also cleared in two other cases.
The 87-year-old was cleared from charges of profiteering from his position by accepting presents in the form of villas in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, as the 10-year statute of limitations had expired.
Graft charges were also dropped in a case in which he was accused of exporting natural gas to Israel at below market prices.
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9/5/15
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Egypt's Hosni Mubarak jailed in corruption retrial...
ReplyDeleteFormer Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to three years in jail on corruption charges after a retrial in the capital, Cairo.
His sons were given four years each in the same case which centres on the embezzlement of $14m (£9.3m) earmarked for renovation of presidential palaces.
The original conviction was overturned on 13 January over legal procedures.
This was the last court case hanging over Mubarak, who was toppled in the 2011 uprising.
Hosni Mubarak and his sons - Alaa and Gamal - were also fined for the amount embezzled and used to renovate their private residences in Cairo and on the Red Sea coast, as well as a family farm.
The former leader, 87, and his sons were present in the courtroom at a police academy on the outskirts of Cairo.
Some of his supporters wore T-shirts with Mubarak's face and waved and blew kisses as he entered, the Associated Press news agency says.
They shouted in anger as the judge issued the ruling - which can be appealed against.
It is not clear whether the time the veteran former leader has already served will count - or whether he will be sent to jail again.
Egypt's highest court is also due to decide on 4 June whether to allow an appeal against a lower court's ruling that dropped murder charges against Mubarak.
The ex-leader remains at Maadi Military Hospital, Cairo.
BBC
9/5/15
Egyptian court: Former President Hosni Mubarak can go free...
ReplyDeleteCairo (CNN)Hosni Mubarak had been Egypt's strong-handed president, controlling the North African nation for nearly three decades. He'd been target of mass scorn and derision, with hundreds of thousands hitting the streets to blast his rule. He'd been in prison, sentenced to spend the rest of his life there for the killing of protesters.
But soon he will be a free man.
That was the decision Saturday by the Cairo Court of Appeals, which state media reported upheld a three-year sentence against the 87-year-old Mubarak on corruption charges, but -- accounting for time he's already served -- gave the OK for him to go home.
When and exactly where he'll get out of custody wasn't immediately clear.
Nor was it evident that Egyptians would care much, if and when that happens....http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/09/middleeast/egypt-hosni-mubarak/index.html