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#Ahmed Nazif

An Egyptian criminal court sentenced former prime minister Ahmed Nazeef to five years in prison and ordered him to pay a hefty fine on Wednesday for graft charges. Nazif, who served under the rule of toppled President Hosni Mubarak and until the start of an uprising which overruled him in 2011, was accused of exploiting his position to make "illicit gains" worth 64 million Egyptian pounds ($8.17 million), as per investigations by Egypt's Illicit Gains Authority. He was also accused…