CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak three years in prison after a retrial for embezzlement.
Mubarak’s two sons, Alaa and Gamal were also sentenced to three years in jail in the same case.
He and his sons were also fined 125 million pounds – the amount they were accused of embezzling from funds meant for the maintenance of presidential palaces.
They also have to give back 21 million pounds, the court ruled.
The former president and his two sons were present in the caged dock. Mubarak’s lawyers may try to appeal the verdict.
They had already been sentenced to three years on the same charges but an appeal court overturned the original verdict.
It was not immediately clear whether the sentencing took into account time served. The three had all been arrested in 2011, months after Mubarak was toppled in a popular 18-day uprising after three decades in power.
Mubarak will return to the Cairo military hospital where he has spent much of his time since his detention.
The dictator Mubarak, who turned 87 this month, was cleared of charges in another trial over the deaths of protesters during the uprising in January and February 2011.
Mubarak was overthrown in one of the regional uprisings that swept the Middle East in 2011 after Tunisian protesters forced their president out.
