Moustafa is head of one of the country's main property companies a flourishing family-run business.
Moustafa was a member of parliament's upper house, the Shura council, and of the ruling party's policies committee, which is chaired by Gamal Mubarak, the younger son of the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak. The initial allegations shocked Egyptians unused to seeing powerful politicians, perceived as untouchable, taken to court, and the new light sentences are certain to raise suggestions that Moustafa's influence kept him from the gallows. Prison years in the Egyptian system are counted as nine months long.
Sukkary's murder conviction remained, but his sentence was also reduced to life in prison, which is 25 years. The court had previously overturned the conviction on procedural grounds and ordered a retrial. Moustafa, a property tycoon, was sentenced to death in May last year after being convicted of paying a retired Egyptian police officer, Mohsen el-Sukkary, $2m (£1.25m) to kill Tamim while she was in Dubai in July 2008. The timing of the verdict comes as a surprise because the judge had not announced he would be issuing his decision and had yet to hear the defence's summation.
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