CAIRO - Egypt charged former Information Minister Anas el-Fekky on Saturday with "deliberately causing financial harm" to the state-run Radio and Television Union, the state prosecutor said.It was the second indictment issued against Fekky since he was forced out of office after President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in a popular uprising in February.The prosecutor said that Fekky was referred to a criminal court in Cairo on charges of depriving the Radio and Television Union, which he ran, of about $1.9 billion in profits by exempting private television stations from fees for live broadcast of the 2009-2010 football season and the start of the 2010-2011 season.It said Fekky had done this to further his "personal interests as part of an attempt to impose his control and media policies on these stations", at a time when the radio and television union had debts of around 14 billion Egyptian pounds ($2.4 billion).
(photo credit: The Jerusalem Post)