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Egyptian tycoon gets death for Lebanese singer's murder (1st Lead)
May 21, 2009, 8:28 GMT
Egyptian construction magnate Hesham Talaat Moustafa (C) leaves the court after hearing his sentence in , Egypt on 21 May 2009. A Cairo court on 21 May 2009 sentenced Egyptian businessman Hisham Talaat Mustafa and retired policeman Mohsen al-Sukkari to be hanged for respectively ordering and carrying out the murder, in Dubai, July 2008, of Lebanese pop diva Suzanne Tamim EPA/STR
Cairo - A Cairo criminal court on Thursday morning sentenced Egyptian real-estate tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustafa to death by hanging for the July murder of Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim.
The court found that Mustafa had paid Mohsen al-Sukkari, a former Egyptian security officer, to murder the singer in her apartment in Dubai last July.
The death sentence must go to Egypt's mufti, the government's supreme religious arbiter, for approval before a May 25 sentencing hearing. The convicted men may appeal Thursday's verdict.
The court erupted in chaos after the judge read his verdict on Thursday morning, as family and supporters of the two convicted men shouted and wept in distress. Mustafa and al-Sukkari were quickly removed from the courtroom.
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