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Corruption trial of Egypt's Rashid, Ezz and Asal adjourned til next week Criminal proceedings against former minister and two NDP-affiliated businessmen will restart Tuesday
Cairo's criminal court adjourned until Tuesday the trial of ex-Minister of Trade and Industry Rashid Mohammed Rashid, who remains at large, as well as former NDP leading member Ahmed Ezz and IDA Chairman Amr Asal. All three men are indicted on multiple charges, including abusing their respective posts for illegal profiteering. Several ministers of the ex-president Hosni Mubarak, as well as some businessmen close to the regime, have had their assets frozen and have been banned from leaving Egypt. The first member of Mubarak's regime to be put on trial was the much-reviled former Minister of Interior Habib el-Adly, whose security forces were given wide powers of arrest under the emergency law. Adly is being tried on charges of embezzlement, to which he pleads not guilty, and is also accused of ordering the fatal shootings of demonstrators during the uprising that overthrew Mubarak.
