The case appealing a decision to remove former top auditor Hisham Geneina from his position was postponed on Tuesday due to a change of judges.
The new court will rehear the defence on 20 December.
Geneina was removed from his post by a presidential decree last March, after State Security Prosecution issued a statement accusing him of making false claims about “widespread” government corruption.
The former auditor was also sentenced in July to one year in jail and an EGP 20,000 fine on charges of “spreading false news.”
Geneina alleged in statements to local media last year that Egypt’s coffers had lost EGP 600 billion (about $76 billion) between 2012 and 2015 due to government corruption.
State security prosecution said that Geneina had exaggerated the sums lost to corruption by referencing violations prior to 2012, and that he had abused his position as head auditor in gathering documents to make his case.
The president issued a decree last July in the absence of a parliament, allowing him for the first time to dismiss the heads of regulatory agencies—including the top auditor, the governor of the Central Bank of Egypt, the financial regulator, and the Administrative Control Authority—raising questions about their independence.
Geneina's defence argues that the presidential decision to remove the auditor from his post is unconstitutional.
Egypt ranked 88th out of 168 countries in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index in 2015.
