CAIRO, Dec 18 (Aswat Masriya) - The Giza Criminal Court postponed on Thursday the trial of former Mubarak-era Interior Minister Habib al-Adly over graft charges amounting to 181 million Egyptian pounds to February 7.

Al-Adly was referred to court after investigations revealed he had amassed a fortune disproportionate to his sources of income, indicating that he may have used his political influence for illegal gains.

The referral order suggests that Adly's enormous wealth was made between 1961 and 2011 while he served as security chief then interior minister. 

Al-Adly was sentenced to 12 years in maximum security prison, and fined four million, eight-hundred fifty-three Egyptian pounds for graft charges and nine million, twenty-six thousand Egyptian pounds for money laundering in 2011.

He is currently serving a five-year prison sentence on charges of wasting 92 million Egyptian pounds of public funds through irregularly procuring vehicle license plates.

The Cairo Criminal Court dropped on November 29 the case against Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak over complicity in the killing of protesters during the 18-day January 2011 uprising which toppled his regime.

The court also acquitted al-Adly and four of his aides on charges of inciting and aiding the killing of 238 protesters. The acquitted aides are; Ahmed Ramzy, Adly Fayed, Hassan Abdel Rahman and Ismail al-Shaer.

The five defendants, alongside other aides Osama al-Marasi and Omar Afifi, were also acquitted of the charge of harming their work-place.