The Cairo Criminal Court, headed by Abdel Tauwab Ibrahim Gadallah, acquitted on Thursday Hussein Salem in the retrial of his case of exporting gas to Israel. Cairo’s Criminal Court had acquitted Salem in 2015, but the public prosecutors appealed the verdict. In October 2011, the court sentenced him to seven years imprisonment for money laundering. In 2012, Spain’s Court of Appeal agreed to send Salem back to Egypt, but the Constitutional Court of Spain postponed the action again to decide if it violates his constitutional rights. Then, in 2015, the court decided that Salem and another six defendants were to be acquitted in the case of exporting gas to Israel.

Source: Daily News Egypt May 18, 2017 16:07 UTC