CAIRO: Ahmed Nazif, a former Egyptian prime minister under ousted President Hosni Mubarak, was sentenced to five years in jail on graft charges in a retrial on Wednesday, judicial sources said.

Nazif had previously been sentenced to three years before launching an appeal that led to the retrial. Two of Nazif’s sons, also facing re-trial on graft charges on Wednesday, were ordered to pay fines, the sources said.

Many other Mubarak-era figures have been cleared of charges in recent months. Nazif had been acquitted on separate graft charges alongside Mubarak’s former Interior Minister Habib El-Adly in February.

Mubarak and many of his former ministers were placed on trial following his overthrow amid popular demands to hold them accountable for years of corruption.

Many of the former regime figures have been acquitted in retrials.

In an unrelated development, a former army officer who is one of Egypt’s most wanted militants called on fellow Egyptians to wage holy war against President Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi, in a new recording.

The call purportedly by the militant, Hisham El-Ashmawi, came in an audio message reported Tuesday by the US-based SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks militant messages.

Officials say El-Ashmawi has worked closely with the Sinai-based Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis militant group.