Egyptian billionaire to hang for murdering pop star Suzan Tamim

greysfang · June 9th, 2009, 12:33 PM

Quote:

Egyptian Tycoon Condemned to Death

Verdict in Singer's Murder Shocks Egypt, Where High-Level Officials are Rarely Tried

By LARA SETRAKIAN and ESTHER YOUNG
BEIRUT, May 21, 2009

It was a stunning sentence in a case that shocked the Arab world: Egyptian billionaire Hisham Talaat Moustafa was condemned to death in the murder of his pop star lover Suzan Tamim.

More Photos

The Lebanese beauty was killed last summer in her Dubai apartment by Muhsen el-Sukkari, a former security guard accused of taking $2 million from Moustafa to stab Tamim to death.

Sukkari was also given the death sentence by an Egyptian court on Thursday, the final episode of a trial closely watched throughout the Middle East. It was a trial that said a billionaire with tight political connections could not get away with murder, contrary to public expectations that the rules are suspended when broken by the ruling class.

The court session quickly turned chaotic with police and Moustafa's relatives clashing with reporters scrambling for a reaction from the defendants to the verdict. Moustafa's two daughters burst into tears after the verdict, and his sister fainted. "This verdict is cruel," Sameer el-Shishtawi, one of Moustafa's lawyers told reporters outside the southern Cairo court. He said he would appeal and was confident the verdict would be overturned. Both men had pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Egyptian Tycoon Condemned to Death - ABC News

Good, asshole thought he would get away with it.

laurenshelton2 · June 9th, 2009, 12:35 PM

Doesn't the main cleric also have to approve the sentence before it can be carried out?

RevellingInSane · June 9th, 2009, 12:41 PM

So money can't buy everyone out of everything? Good. Kill them both. Hanging is too humane for these animals.

Laurent · June 9th, 2009, 12:44 PM

Quote:

"This verdict is cruel,"

I wonder how he feels this is too cruel - because he's a rich asshole or because she's only a woman?

kingcap72 · June 9th, 2009, 12:48 PM

Too bad the U.S. doesn't believe in throwing the book at the rich and famous. Then again, we don't use the death penalty enough in the U.S.

celeb_2006 · June 9th, 2009, 12:50 PM

Sucks, she was pretty.

greysfang · June 9th, 2009, 12:50 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the case where the girl was beheaded?

olivia · June 9th, 2009, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RevellingInSane

So money can't buy everyone out of everything? Good. Kill them both. Hanging is too humane for these animals.

He has appeals both legal and religious, I think.

Not a DP fan. What could be worse for a man who had everything than to sit in a sweltering Egyptian sardine can for the rest of his life?

No filthy whores...er...women. Bad plumbing. Screaming all day and night. Stinky. Violent. No air conditioning. Rats.

Let him sit out his life there.

cmmdee · June 9th, 2009, 02:37 PM

He's confident his sentence will be overturned which is a pretty way of saying he wants to pay out some major dough to some people.

Did they ever say what his motive was in killing her?

McJag · June 9th, 2009, 02:48 PM

What a terrible crime. She was so pretty.

AllieCat · June 9th, 2009, 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by greysfang

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the case where the girl was beheaded?

I thought this was the same case too.

rollo · June 9th, 2009, 03:06 PM

Well, let's hope all his appeals fail too.

laurenshelton2 · June 9th, 2009, 03:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cmmdee

He's confident his sentence will be overturned which is a pretty way of saying he wants to pay out some major dough to some people.

Did they ever say what his motive was in killing her?

She was his mistress and broke off the relationship.

Laurent · June 9th, 2009, 03:19 PM

Yes, I think this is the case where it was thought she was beheaded.

Quote:

Suzanne Tamim was found murdered in her apartment in Dubai, on 28 July 2008.[5][6] Although it was reported that she had been beheaded,[7] the lawyer of her former husband let it be known that her death certificate indicates that her throat was slit.[8]

Suzanne Tamim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I didn't see anything on the Wiki page about the motive for the murder, but I figured it was something along the lines of what laurenshelton2 said. He had his penis challenged by a woman.

sparkly · June 9th, 2009, 03:38 PM

IIRC, she dumped him and that's why he had her murdered.
I hope that asshole really is hanged and doesn't get the chance to pay people off. He barely hid the fact that he was connected to her murder ffs. I'm glad that he was brought to trial and that the police over there didn't turn a blind eye just because he is a billionaire and she's a female.