The competent court sentenced on Wednesday, Asmaa Zeinhom, the primary defendant in the Egyptian Museum bracelet theft case in Tah...

The competent court sentenced on Wednesday, Asmaa Zeinhom, the primary defendant in the Egyptian Museum bracelet theft case in Tahrir Square, Central Cairo, to 15 years of rigorous imprisonment. Zeinhom, an employee at the museum, was also fined LE 2 million for the theft of an archaeological gold bracelet from the museum’s collection. The court further sentenced the second defendant, Mahmoud Ali Emam, a jewelry shop owner, to 15 years of rigorous imprisonment. Meanwhile, the third and fourth defendants, Fahim Mahmoud Mohamed Moussa and Mohamed Gamal Sadek Ali Afifi, were each fined LE 5,000 after it was proven they had handled the stolen bracelet without knowing it was an antiquity. https://lnkd.in/gpEFyRau