An Egyptian court has ordered another retrial of a former prime minister who served under deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak, after he was convicted of illegally amassing wealth while in office and sentenced to five years in prison in July.
Wednesday's order for a retrial of Ahmed Nazif is the second such measure, after an initial three-year sentence was overturned in this year's retrial. He was accused of illegally amassing $8.2 million while in office.
Nazif had been acquitted in a separate retrial of charges of wrongfully awarding contracts for supplying new car license plates.
Many Mubarak-era officials have won a series of acquittals, mostly in corruption-related cases. Meanwhile, courts are packed with cases involving ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, members of his outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and secular activists.
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