22 May 2009 :
a Cairo court sentenced an Egyptian tycoon and a former policeman to death for the 2008 murder in Dubai of the businessman's former lover, Lebanese pop diva Suzanne Tamim.The judge ordered Hisham Talaat Mustafa and retired policeman Mohsen al-Sukkari hanged for respectively ordering and carrying out the brutal slaying.
Mustafa, a stalwart of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party, was found guilty of paying Sukkari two million dollars to cut the throat of his former lover Tamim, 30.