Who is gamal mubarak

The two sons and their father were sentenced to three years in prison following their conviction of embezzling funds set aside for the restoration and maintenance of presidential palaces, using the money to upgrade their private residences. The sons were released in for time served, while Mubarak walked free in The trio paid back to the state the money they embezzled.

The sons were briefly detained in September pending their trial on charges of stock market manipulation. But while most Mubarak regime luminaries have since lived quietly on the sidelines, second-string Mubarak loyalists have found their way back to public life under the rule of general-turned-president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, particularly in parliament, a mostly rubber-stamp chamber packed with government supporters and media figures.

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Profile: Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak acquitted over protester deaths. Mubarak sons freed ahead of retrial. Egypt's day revolution. Egypt's Mubarak: Fall of the great survivor. Image source, AFP. Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, seen here in , are accused of embezzlement.

Egypt's day revolution Mubarak-era officials in the dock Profile: Hosni Mubarak. Hosni Mubarak, seen here in , also spent time in prison. After Mubarak's ouster in early , Gamal and Alaa were in custody for a number of alleged corruption crimes. Along with their father, they were sentenced in May to three years in jail for embezzling funds meant for maintaining presidential palaces. They have been free for the past four years since their sentences were covered by the years they had already served in provisional detention and they were released in the same year.