Court overturns Mubarak fraud conviction
A court in Egypt has overturned the convictions for embezzlement of former President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons and ordered a retrial, the BBC reported.
Mr Mubarak was jailed for three years in May after being found guilty of fraudulently billing the government for $14m (£9.3m) of personal expenses.
But the Court of Cassation found legal procedures were not followed properly.
Mr Mubarak's lawyer told the BBC the 86-year-old would soon be released from detention at a Cairo military hospital.
It was the last remaining case keeping Mr Mubarak behind bars.
Charges of conspiring in the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising that ended his rule in 2011 were dropped in November.
The former president and his sons - Alaa, 53, and Gamal, 51 - were also cleared of two separate corruption charges.