CAIRO
A Cairo court on Tuesday acquitted two former Mubarak regime officials of charges of squandering public funds during their time in office.
In a retrial, the court found former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly not guilty of squandering 92 million Egyptian pounds (roughly $13 million) worth of state funds in connection with a contract to supply government vehicles with metal license plates.
Tuesday's acquittal removed the last remaining criminal charge against Nazif.
Al-Adly, for his part, will remain in detention pending a March 12 verdict in a final corruption-related lawsuit. That will be the last trial of any Mubarak-era official to be reviewed by the courts.
In December, a Cairo criminal court dropped murder charges against former President Hosni Mubarak, al-Adly and six of the latter's aides.
The men had been charged with conspiring to kill hundreds of unarmed protesters during Egypt's 2011 popular uprising that culminated in Mubarak's ouster.
