Al-Marsad newspaper: businessman Hassan Ratib, former parliamentarian Alaa Hassanein, and the rest of the defendants in the Great Antiquities case collapsed, following the issuance of prison sentences today.
The North Cairo Criminal Court sentenced former deputy Alaa Hassanein to 10 years in prison, five years for businessman Hassan Ratib and a fine of one million pounds, in the major antiquities case.
He had ordered the defendants, Alaa Hassanein, Hassan Ratib, and twenty-one others, all of whom were imprisoned, except for two fugitives – who were brought in last December to the relevant criminal court, accusing the first of forming and managing a gang for the purpose of smuggling antiquities outside the country, destroying movable antiquities by separating part of them deliberately, and trading in Antiquities and his participation with an unknown person by agreement in falsifying antiquities with the intent of fraud.
Hassan Ratib was also accused of being the first suspect in the gang; Which he manages by financing it to implement its criminal plans, as well as his participation with him in committing the crime of excavating works in four sites with the intention of obtaining antiquities without a license and trading them, while the rest of the accused were accused of joining the aforementioned gang and some of them concealing traces with the intention of smuggling and carrying out excavations in the four mentioned sites. With the intention of obtaining antiquities without a license, according to Cairo 24.