The Cassation Court upheld on Wednesday a ruling to sentence former housing minister Ibrahim Soliman to three years in jail and four officials of the New Urban Communities Authority to one year each over a corruption case.

Soliman is accused of allocating state lands for the Sixth of October Development and Investment Company "SODIC", owned by businessman Magdy Rasekh, in violation of legal procedures for allocating lands, in a manner that caused a waste of about EGP one billion of public money. 

The court ordered also amending fines imposed on Soliman and another defendant in the same case.

Source: MENA