Cairo court sentences finance minister to one year in prison
Minister of Finance Hany Kadry Dimian has been sentenced to a year in prison by a Cairo misdemeanors court.
According to state-owned Al-Ahram, the minister has been convicted of failing to abide by a previous order from the administrative court to re-instate a sacked ministry employee.
Kadry Dimian can appeal the verdict.
In April 2013, then-Prime Minister Hesham Qandil was sentenced to one year in prison due to a similar case.
Qandil was charged with failing to execute a 2011 court order regarding the re-nationalization of the Nile Cotton Ginning Company and the reinstatement of dismissed employees.
Initially, Qandil successfully appealed the case, but the prison sentence was upheld after the government of Mohamed Morsi, in which Qandil served, was overthrown. Qandil was arrested in December 2013 and imprisoned until July 2014, when the misdemeanors court acquitted him and annulled his sentence.
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