A court in Egypt has sentenced a former agriculture minister and his office manager to 10 years in prison after finding them guilty of corruption.<\/p>\n
Salah Eddin Helal was also fined $110,000 (\u00a380,000), while his chief-of-staff Muhyidin Said’s fine was $55,000.
\nHelal resigned in September, when he was accused of taking bribes to sell state land a heavily discounted price.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said the bribes included a luxury home, membership of an exclusive sports club, and high-end clothing.<\/p>\n
The businessman who paid the bribe and another who facilitated it were spared jail because they confessed, a judicial official told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n
The corruption scandal prompted the resignation of Ibrahim Mehleb’s government, and Mr Mehleb’s subsequent replacement by Ismail Sharif.<\/p>\n
Egypt was ranked 88th out of 168 countries on Transparency International’s 2015 corruption perceptions index.<\/p>\n
The country’s 2011 uprising was partially driven by widespread anger at corruption under long-time President Hosni Mubarak.<\/p>\n
In May 2015, Mubarak and his two sons were found guilty at a retrial of embezzlement and sentenced to three and four years in prison respectively.<\/p>\n
Two months later, a former prime minister under Mubarak, Ahmed Nazif, was sentenced to five years after being convicted of corruption charges at a retrial.<\/p>\n
Mohammed Morsi in 2013, has promised to make the fight against corruption a focus of his administration.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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