Cairo Criminal court on Monday sentenced former Housing Minister Ibrahim Soliman to three years in jail

Soliman was being retried in a corruption case. He is accused of allocating state lands for the Sixth of October Development and Investment Company "SODIC", owned by businessman Magdy Rasekh, in violation of legal procedures for allocating lands, in a manner that caused a waste of about EGP one billion of public money.

Source: MENA