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The Egyptian administrative court has made the decision of fining the expelled former President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, along with his two closest former officials. A total sum of 540 million Egyptian pounds ($91 million) was fined to three officials of the former government on Saturday, for misusing their powers and ordering to halt the mobile and Internet services in the time of protests which took place in January. This is the first court ruling against Mubarak after his resignation, on 11th February, due to one of the world’s largest civil protest. Mubarak will be facing even more brutal charges and might be even be given a death penalty as he defends against charges like ordering the killing of protesters.
According to the sources in the Egyptian judicial system, the administrative court has fined a total of 200 million Egyptian pounds to Mubarak personally, and the fine imposed to his former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli is 300 million pounds, while the rest 40 million pounds were fined to former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif. Officially the fine is imposed to Mubarak, Nazif and Adli, because they were found guilty of "causing damage to the national economy,” as these fines are supposed to return that money to the country’s treasury.