EGYPT – Ex-finance minister Boutros-Ghali gets life sentence

THE former Egyptian finance minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali was sentenced in absentia to life in prison in a corruption case on Tuesday, a Cairo criminal court source said.  Boutros-Ghali, whose uncle Boutros Boutros-Ghali was U.N. secretary general from 1992 to 1996, served as finance minister under deposed President Hosni Mubarak.  He fled the country and was convicted in absentia in 2011...
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