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On 6 July, the North Cairo Criminal Court acquitted former Egyptian Minister of Finance, Youssef Boutrous Ghali, of long-standing corruption charges in a retrial of the ‘Customs Corruption Case.’ Youssef Boutros Ghali, whose uncle Boutros Boutros Ghali was U.N. secretary general from 1992 to 1996, served as Egypt’s Minister of Finance under former President Hosni Mubarak. He held the title from 2004 until the 2011 revolution that overthrew Mubarak’s rule. Following the uprising, the former minister fled the country and…
