The Public Prosecution received on Monday an official letter from the Interior Ministry stating that Mubarak-era interior minister Habib al-Adly was not at his home in 6th of October City, where he is serving\u00a0a seven-year sentence issued against him by the Cairo Criminal Court for embezzling money from the ministry.<\/p>\n
The letter added that a team has been looking for Adly after being unable to find him at his home, which indicates that Adly could have escaped.<\/p>\n
Judicial sources said the official letters confirm that Adly is not at his home, adding that Adly used private security guards rather than personnel from the ministry. Once the seven-year sentence was issued, the in-house arrest was concluded.<\/p>\n
The prosecution, according to the sources, addressed the ministry twice to quickly arrest Adly.<\/p>\n
Farid al-Deeb, the lawyer defending Adly for corruption in the ministry, said he was authorized by an official proxy from the suspect to attend, as the latter was in hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
In remarks to Al-Masry Al-Youm, Deeb denied claims by\u00a0the lawyer Mohamed al-Guindy who appeared on TV shows saying\u00a0that he was the\u00a0lawyer defending Adly. Deeb confirmed that Adly canceled Guindy\u2019s proxy more than two years ago.<\/p>\n
Deeb added that he urged approving the challenge to suspend the verdict until the Court of Cassation reviews the challenge made on the following day of the verdict.<\/p>\n
The court is scheduled to review on Tuesday the challenge filed by Adly against the verdict.<\/p>\n
Adly, along with two others, were sentenced to seven years of hard labor and ordered to return a sum of LE195.936 million in addition to a similar amount as a fine.<\/p>\n
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Public Prosecution received on Monday an official letter from the Interior Ministry stating that Mubarak-era interior minister Habib al-Adly was not at his home in 6th of October City, where he is serving\u00a0a seven-year sentence issued against him by the Cairo Criminal Court for embezzling money from the ministry. The letter added that a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":9893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7863],"tags":[8223,8224,8222],"class_list":["post-9892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-section","tag-interior-ministry","tag-mubarak-era","tag-prosecution"],"yoast_head":"\n