Legendary Jordanian artifacts smuggler released

SANA'A, Oct 06 (Saba) - The archaeologist court has released a
Jordanian, famous artifacts smuggler, who was reservedly detained
over charges linked to smuggling Yemeni ancient relics, the GPC-run
almotamar.net has reported.

Sameer Hamad was arrested in early June and placed under house
arrest in Sana'a few days before his trial, one of the most
important smuggling cases in the country, began.

Judicial sources noted that Hamad was released late in September
unjustifiably and in contradiction with a previous ruling which
provided for jailing him for continuous trading with Yemeni ancient
relics and that was built on a lawsuit filed by a man from Jawf
province in which he appealed to the court to order Hamad pay a sum
of $ 19 thousand as cost of artifacts Hamad had bought from him.

Sameer Hamad, a Jordanian national, was held in June in Sana'a after
his return from Hadramout from where he brought wood and copper
loads. He was imprisoned in the reserve prison after he violated a
ruling that imposed on him not to leave Sana'a.