The Cairo Criminal Court postponed until March 26 the retrial of ex-chief of presidential staff Zakaria Azmy over charges of illicit gains.
Azmi was convicted by an Egyptian court on charges of corruption and sentenced to seven years in prison and a fine of 36.4 million pounds. He was granted an appeal for a retrial.
The Illicit Gain Authority had accused Azmy of gaining some 42.5 million pounds from abusing his posts as chief of presidential staff and member of parliament.
He was also accused of buying real estate in different cities, including an apartment in the San Stefano towers in Alexandria that he bought for 1 million pounds when it was worth more than 5 million pounds, a villa in Marina and two land plots in Hurghada.
He was further accused of obtaining land in Ismailia through direct order, apartments in a building in Heliopolis in return for granting the owner a license to build in violation of the law, and 1,725 square meters of land in New Cairo from former Housing Minister Ibrahim Suleiman also in violation of the law.