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An Egyptian criminal court has acquitted former prime minister and presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik of two sets of corruption charges.
Also acquitted on Wednesday were Capt Tawfiq Assi, chairman of the holding company for EgyptAir, and former civil aviation minister Ibrahim Manaa.
Both were charged with colluding with Mr Shafik to misappropriate public funds.
A second charge, also dropped, related to his use of public funds set aside for the renovation of a park in Heliopolis, Cairo.
Mr Shafik, Capt Assi and Mr Manaa had previously been acquitted of these charges, only for the rulings to be overturned after an appeal by Egypt’s prosecutor general to the Court of Cassation.