Egypt
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- Dealers Arrested In Minya Province
Youm7 (Manmoud Abel Rady) Twelve antiques dealers were arrested in Minya province by Police detectives cooperating with the Public Security Authority after they tried to sell artifacts taken from tombs. Major Gen. Ahmed Gamal, assistant Minister of Interior...
- Mexicans Arrested For Stealing Egyptian Antiquities In Chile
Latin American Herald Tribune Two Mexicans were arrested when they were caught trying to steal priceless Egyptian antiquities from an exhibition in Chile’s capital, police said Sunday. Jose Garcia Nielsen, 24, and Alberto Tinajo Cazares, 22, were caught...
- Authorities Arrest Police Officer For Possessing Artifacts
Al Masry Al Youm A police officer and two others with three statues in their possession have been arrested. A security source said they were apprehended on Wahat Road, in 6th of October City in Giza, when a police ambush stopped their car for inspection....
- Antiquity Smugglers Arrested
CNN Egyptian police confiscated four ancient mummies on Wednesday and arrested three antiquities smugglers who had stolen them from an ancient graveyard, a security official said. Wrapped in layers of linen and decorated with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics,...
- Arrests Over Missing Statues
http://tinyurl.com/bvq3n "Egyptian police arrested two men on Saturday in connection with the disappearance of three 3000-year-old Pharaonic statues from the basement of the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo. Police captured the men, both of them employees...
Egypt
Egyptian policeman arrested
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"Antiquities police arrested a police guard in the Egyptian governorate of Qena who attempted to sell four pharaonic statues to a rich Arab for 4 million US dollars, a police source said Friday. A criminal confessed after he was arrested in Suez that he met the guard frequently and that he was mediating between him and a wealthy man from the Gulf who wanted to buy the statues.
The police stormed the guard's house in Negada village in Qena and found four small pharaonic statues in his possession.
One of the statues is ebony and the three others are golden. One is in the shape of a bird, another is a statue of a 16th dynasty (about 1600 BC) king, the third is of a pharaonic fighter and the fourth is of a noble.
The antiquities police, meanwhile, have not released any more information on the statues. Investigations were underway."
The police stormed the guard's house in Negada village in Qena and found four small pharaonic statues in his possession.
One of the statues is ebony and the three others are golden. One is in the shape of a bird, another is a statue of a 16th dynasty (about 1600 BC) king, the third is of a pharaonic fighter and the fourth is of a noble.
The antiquities police, meanwhile, have not released any more information on the statues. Investigations were underway."
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- Dealers Arrested In Minya Province
Youm7 (Manmoud Abel Rady) Twelve antiques dealers were arrested in Minya province by Police detectives cooperating with the Public Security Authority after they tried to sell artifacts taken from tombs. Major Gen. Ahmed Gamal, assistant Minister of Interior...
- Mexicans Arrested For Stealing Egyptian Antiquities In Chile
Latin American Herald Tribune Two Mexicans were arrested when they were caught trying to steal priceless Egyptian antiquities from an exhibition in Chile’s capital, police said Sunday. Jose Garcia Nielsen, 24, and Alberto Tinajo Cazares, 22, were caught...
- Authorities Arrest Police Officer For Possessing Artifacts
Al Masry Al Youm A police officer and two others with three statues in their possession have been arrested. A security source said they were apprehended on Wahat Road, in 6th of October City in Giza, when a police ambush stopped their car for inspection....
- Antiquity Smugglers Arrested
CNN Egyptian police confiscated four ancient mummies on Wednesday and arrested three antiquities smugglers who had stolen them from an ancient graveyard, a security official said. Wrapped in layers of linen and decorated with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics,...
- Arrests Over Missing Statues
http://tinyurl.com/bvq3n "Egyptian police arrested two men on Saturday in connection with the disappearance of three 3000-year-old Pharaonic statues from the basement of the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo. Police captured the men, both of them employees...