Egypt tycoon charged over Lebanese singer killing

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CAIRO (AFP) — Egyptian tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustafa was arrested and charged on Tuesday with ordering the brutal killing of Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim in Dubai in July, state media reported.

Mustafa is charged with ordering and paying for the murder of Tamim at her upmarket flat in Dubai on July 28, Egyptian prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmud said in a statement carried by the official MENA news agency.

Mustafa, a stalwart of the ruling National Democratic Party and member of the Shura Council, Egypt's upper house, runs the Talaat Mustafa Group real estate company worth several billion dollars.

A judicial source said Mustafa, who was born in 1959, had been arrested and was being held pending trial. Telephone operators at Talaat Mustafa Group hung up when...