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VIDEO / The Diva, the billionaire, and the trial that's shaking the Arab world
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: Suzanne Tamim, Crime, Egypt 

Scores of police secured a Cairo courtroom on Saturday as an Egyptian billionaire and a security guard pled not guilty to the murder of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim, found dead in her apartment in the Dubai Marina in July.

Hisham Talaat Moustafa, a senator and one of Egypt's largest property tycoons, is accused of paying Mohsen al-Sokary, a former police officer and employee of Moustafa, $2 million to murder Tamim, a former mistress.

To many Egyptians, the connections between money and power have made the trial all the more controversial.
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Tamim rose to fame after she starred in the hit Lebanese program "studio el fan", a reality program and singing competition watched throughout the Arab world.

The trial could serve as a test of the transparency of Egypt's legal system, and an indicator of whether or not a man close to the regime will be able to get away with murder.

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