Sameh Fahmy

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Charge:	Corruption (including Public Corruption)
Sentence:	15 years
Years Imprisoned:	2
Year Crime:	2011
Year Convicted:	2012
Year Cleared:	2016
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Egypt
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City of Crime:	Cairo
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Sameh Fahmy and five other petroleum ministry officials were wrongly convicted in June 2012 of selling under-priced gas to Israel and squandering public funds. Fahmy and his codefendants were arrested in April 2011. Their prosecution was based on the assertion that Hosni Mubarak's government sold gas at preferential rates to Israel and other countries, costing Egypt billions of dollars in lost revenue. At at the time of Egypt's 2011 revolution it was selling natural gas to Israel under a 20-year agreement, which was halted in April 2012. After Fahmy's conviction he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In 2013 the convictions of Fahmy and his five codefendants was overturned and a retrial was ordered. On February 21, 2015 they were acquitted after a retrial. The government appealed. On October 27, 2016 Egypt's Court of Cassation, rejected the government's appeal of the appeals court's acquittal of Fahmy and five other petroleum ministry officials of all charges. Mubarak and associates of his were convicted of corruption-related offences, and then subsequently acquitted on retrial. In November 2014, Mubarak and his interior minister Habib El-Adly were acquitted of charges of killing peaceful protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled him."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On October 27, 2016 Egypt's Court of Cassation, rejected the government's appeal of the appeals court's acquittal of Fahmy and five other petroleum ministry officials of all charges."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Egypt court grants final acquittal to Mubarak-era oil minister over Israel gas deal, By Staff, Ahram Online, Oct. 27, 2016"
Information Location 1:	http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/246736/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-court-grants-final-acquittal-to-Mubarakera-o.aspx
Information Source 2:	"Mubarak-era oil minister acquitted of Egypt-Israel gas deal charges, By Staff, Ahram Online, Feb. 21, 2015"
Information Location 2:	http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/0/123557/Egypt/0/Mubarakera-oil-minister-acquitted-of-EgyptIsrael-g.aspx
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Sameh Fahmy

Charge:

Corruption (including Public Corruption)

Sentence:

15 years

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

2011

Year Convicted:

2012

Year Cleared:

2016

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Egypt

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Cairo

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On October 27, 2016 Egypt's Court of Cassation, rejected the government's appeal of the appeals court's acquittal of Fahmy and five other petroleum ministry officials of all charges."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Egypt court grants final acquittal to Mubarak-era oil minister over Israel gas deal, By Staff, Ahram Online, Oct. 27, 2016"

Information Location 1:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/246736/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-court-grants-final-acquittal-to-Mubarakera-o.aspx

Information Source 2:

"Mubarak-era oil minister acquitted of Egypt-Israel gas deal charges, By Staff, Ahram Online, Feb. 21, 2015"

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http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/0/123557/Egypt/0/Mubarakera-oil-minister-acquitted-of-EgyptIsrael-g.aspx

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