A Cairo criminal court has postponed a verdict in the retrial of Egyptian property tycoon and politician Hesham Talaat Moustafa until Tuesday, the state news agency said. An appeals court in March ordered the retrial of Mr Moustafa, a member of parliament for Egypt's ruling party and the former chairman of Talaat Moustafa Group, who had been sentenced to death for paying a security man to kill Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim in Dubai.
Mr Moustafa and security man Muhsen el-Sukkari were arrested in September 2008 and found guilty by a criminal court in May 2009 for Tamim's murder in Dubai in July 2008. They had pleaded not guilty and appealed the ruling. In March the appeals court accepted the retrial request and sent the case to another criminal court for retrial. *Reuters
