Youssef Boutros Ghali sentenced to 25 years
Former Egyptian finance minister Youssef Boutros Ghali was sentenced in absentia on Tuesday by a criminal court to 25 years in prison for squandering public funds related to coupons used for subsidised cooking gas, according to state-owned Al-Ahram.
Osama Bin Laden's former driver Salim Hamdan Is sentenced to 5 1/2 years, concluding the first US war crimes trial since World War Two The judge gave Hamdan credit for 61 months, so he could be out in five months.