Egypt acquits Mubarak-era minister in last graft case

An Egyptian court acquitted an interior minister of ousted president Hosni Mubarak Thursday in the last corruption case he was facing, his lawyer and state media said.
Habib al-Adly was cleared of illegally accumulating around 181 million Egyptian pounds ($25 million/23 million euros) and "should be released soon," Mohammed el-Gendy said.
The verdict is the latest in a series of acquittals for Mubarak-era officials.
Last month an appeals court overturned a suspended five-year sentence on Adly and ex-premier Ahmed Nazif over other corruption charges.
Adly was also cleared of murder charges in a separate retrial with Mubarak in November, for which he had been sentenced to life in prison.
Trials of Mubarak and his former officials have been overshadowed by those against Islamist former president Mohamed Morsi and other members of the Muslim Brotherhood group, branded as a "terrorist group" in 2013.
Morsi was ousted in 2013 by then army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who was subsequently elected as his successor.