The
Interior Ministry announced on Facebook they had arrested a suspect in
the case of stolen artifacts from the Mallawi Museum.
The Antiquities and
Museums Investigation Bureau discovered that a resident butcher of
Mallawi named Essam al-Sakkat, 36, who was convicted before in 18 cases
of cattle theft, drug trafficking and possession of unlicensed weapons,
was looking for someone to buy artifacts that were stolen from the
Mallawi Museum.An undercover agent posed as a buyerinterested in the
artifacts and upon meeting al-Sakkat in Giza, he arrested him while
al-Sakkat was exhibiting 13 pieces of artifacts that were recorded
missing from the museum.Sakkat admitted to the charge and was taken to
the prosecution for investigation.Edited translation from Al-Masry
Al-Youm
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