20206908 Chief archaeologist of Egypt to avoid prison
Egypt's Court of Appeal upheld the complaint on June 15 the Minister of Antiquities of Egypt, Zahi Hawass, who appealed a lower court, sentenced him to one year imprisonment on corruption charges, reports the Associated Press. According to the last sentence, Hawass found not guilty of fraud and shopping center gift shop in the Cairo Museum of Antiquities, which holds the treasures of ancient Egypt, including the golden mask of Tutankhamun. Previously protested against the minister of the graduates of faculties of archaeological Egyptian universities, who accused him of not only corruption, but in the immoderate vanity. Hawass – one of the few people who managed to retain his ministerial posts in the government of Egypt after the change of power in the country. The rest of the world knows him as a popularizer of Egyptian culture and active defender of historical and archaeological sites.
