The Cairo Criminal Court, held in Abbasiya, sentenced businessman Hassan Rateb to 5 years in prison, and former parliamentarian Alaa Hassanein to 10 years in prison, in the case known in the media as “The Great Antiquities.”
The judgment was issued under the chairmanship of Counselor Khalil Omar Khader and the membership of advisors, Mustafa Rashad Abdel Tawab, Muhammad Sharif Sabra, Awni Muhammad Matar, and the Secretariat of Muhammad Abd al-Aziz and Hamdi Darwish..
The Public Prosecution had charged Hassan Ratib with financing Alaa Hassanein with millions of pounds and his gang to explore and trade in antiquities..
During the investigations, the prosecution confronted Hassan Ratib with the confessions of former deputy Alaa Hassanein, known as the deputy of the jinn and orcs, and included that he financially financed the archaeological excavations. Alaa Hassanein’s brother on the involvement of businessman Hassan Ratib in paying millions of pounds to search for antiquities.
And the security services had arrested businessman Hassan Rateb, in implementation of the Public Prosecution’s decision to seize him, after investigations conducted by the investigation authorities with the former parliamentarian Alaa Hassanein, known as the deputy of the jinn and the demons, revealed that Ratib is accused of financially financing Alaa Hassanein in the excavations of antiquities.