US Army pilot accused of selling stolen Egyptian antiquities

Chief Warrant Officer Edward George Johnson, a US Army helicopter pilot, was stationed in Cairo in September 2002 when about 370 artifacts dating to 3,000+ BC were stolen from the Ma’adi Museum. A year later he contacted an art dealer, claiming the antiquities, some of which has been consigned to galleries in New York, London, Zurich and Montreal, were acquired by his grandfather in the 1930s and 40s. Now he faces up to 15 years imprisonment.

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