CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's former top auditor, who was sacked after he said corruption had cost the country $68 billion in four years, was sentenced to jail on Thursday for spreading false news, judicial sources said.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi sacked Hisham Geneina, head of the Central Auditing Organisation, in March. He appointed a fact-finding commission that quickly concluded Geneina had misled the public by over-estimating the scale of corruption.
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