A Cairo criminal court on Sunday set July 22 to issue its verdict into the retrial of former prime minister Ahmed Nazif.

Nazif, who served under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, is being retried following a successful appeal against previous verdicts in an embezzlement case.

He is accused of squandering EGP 64 million in public fund, by accepting unlawful gifts from state-owned media institutions and forcing governmental bodies to make donations to a fake educational institution owned by him.